![]() ![]() ![]() James’s precarious tightrope walk between White and Black America continues. This panic culminates in an incident in which he punches the adolescent son of a Black Panther because he believes the boy’s father is going to try to kill Ruth. ![]() As he watches White newscasters incite panic over the supposed threat the Panthers pose to White America, James concludes that the Black Power movement must logically be a threat to his White mother. James is attracted to the fashion and iconography associated with the movement, but he is also susceptible to the media narrative about Black Power and its most visible and controversial auxiliary group, the Black Panthers. In the 1960s, the emergence of the Black Power movement highlights James’s inability to know where and how he fits. As a child, James questions why he looks different from his mother. ![]()
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