Blues for Mister Charlie

by

James Baldwin

Blues for Mister Charlie Symbols

Guns

In Blues for Mister Charlie, guns represent how in a white-supremacist society, Black people are denied the right to legitimate self-defense. Early in the play, Lorenzo, a Black student who has been protesting…

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Photos

In Blues for Mister Charlie, Richard’s photos of his white girlfriends represent how, in a white-supremacist society, white people project their sexual anxieties onto Black people in a racist fashion. The photos initially appear…

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