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	James Baldwin’s 1955 “Stranger in the Village” argues how belief, ignorance and denial make racism a worldwide problem concerning both the discriminated people and the discriminating one. To exemplify his comments, James Baldwin tells a story of his own experience that takes place in a small village in the Swiss mountains, and widens the evidence to a global scale. In order to make both ‘races’ understand and try to solve the problem, Baldwin claims that the relationship between black and white people is only complicated and full of hatred because white people once needed it to be so and now deny they ever did. The essay is then addressed to everybody and  n o t   f i n i sh ed

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	James Baldwin’s 1955 “Stranger in the Village” argues how belief, ignorance and denial make racism a worldwide problem concerning both the discriminated people and the discriminating one. To exemplify his comments, James Baldwin tells a story of his own experience that takes place in a small village in the Swiss mountains, and widens the evidence to a global scale. In order to make both ‘races’ understand and try to solve the problem, Baldwin claims that the relationship between black and white people is only complicated and full of hatred because white people once needed it to be so and now deny they ever did. The essay is then addressed to everybody and  n o t   f i n i sh ed

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James Baldwin’s essay, Stranger in the village (1953) proves that the effect of being a stranger is different depending on the country a black man lives in.

Using ethos (giving the reader credibility and trust), logos (reality logics and proofs of his statement) and pathos (stimulating the reader’s emotions), Baldwin develops and supports his claim. The writer’s purpose is to highlight the fact that being a black man in America is the same than being a black man in a little village, of a white people majority, in Europe in order to denounce the fact that white people are treating him the same way in his own country and in a lost village of Switzerland, and to trigger a reaction from the reader. By adding references, Baldwin addresses his essay to anyone who has some knowledge about European culture and history to make the reader think about his power of convincing.

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In James Baldwin’s essay entitled Stranger in the Village (1955), the reader is immersed into a painting depicting the different attitudes towards black people in Europe and America In order to make it accessible to as many people as possible, he gives, in his analysis as the only black man in the village, specific details to illustrate his experience. Baldwin brings forward the rawness and realness of its story by mentioning place names such as Milan or Lausanne. His purpose is to describe his experience to educate white and black people about racial issues.

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James Baldwin’s essay, Stranger in the Village included in the work Notes of a Native Son (1955), explains that « there is a dreadful abyss between the streets of this village and the streets of the city in which [he] was born, between the children who shout Neger ! Today and those who shouted Nigger ! yesterday – the abyss is experience, the American experience. The syllable hurled behind me today expresses above all, wonder : I am a stranger here. But I am not a stranger in America and the same syllable ridingon the American air expresses the war my presence had occasioned in the American soul. »( p. 172). Indeed, racism towards black people is undeniably linked to ignorance and fear, all over our globe which through his work Baldwin highlitghts with his life experience and his status of a stranger wherever he goes except in America, such as shown in the title of the essay. The author also conveys his point of view to sensitize the reader to his major claim of the work in order to spread his ideas and to make people aware of this problem in the society. Due to the universal subject of identity Baldwin is addressing in his essay, African-American can be concerned because they can rely to Baldwin’s experience but the audience also can be anyone without regarding their social classes, their status, or their races.

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RHETORICAL PRÉCIS -Aurianne - 1L

James Baldwin’s essay, "Stranger in the village"  from Notes of a Native son (1955), argues about the position of African-American people ,through the time in the United States and in the world and also about the relationship between white and black people. The author explicitely denounce the ubiquitous racism faced by his community in America, that exists because of the supposed and imposed superiority of white people. Throughout his thesis statement, Baldwin makes a huge parallel between how he is seen in the tiny Swiss village and how he is treated in America as a black man. His purpose is to use his personal experience in order to point the tense racial issues in America. Baldwin's essay is especially addressed to the American audience as he writes in the optic of accusing the racial policies and the treatment of colored people in the United States.

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James Arthur Baldwin, the writer of “Stranger in the village”(1995), argues in his essay that the difference between the feeling of being a stranger as a black man in the village of Switzerland, and the exact same feeling in the United States, is due to the american experience. Thus, Baldwin relates of his life in the small village of Switzerland and compares it with his life in America, in order to support the cause of the African-American’s integration. Baldwin addresses this essay to the American population, and involves them by repeating the term ‘American’ throughout his work. Even though we're not Americans, we felt concerned by this use of the Pathos, and it overwhelmed us.

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In his essay « Stranger In The Village » (1953), James Baldwin argue the place of the black man in the society, drastically changed by the « American experience ». Baldwin backs this claim up through his experiences as a « stranger » in a Swiss village. He aims to denounce the condition of the black man and the faked ignorance of the white american man, in order to make the americans acknowledge the place of the black population in the american history and society. This essay is intended for americans -all ages, given the various vocabulary- since its purpose is to make americans react.

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James Baldwin’s essay, “Stranger in the Village” from his essays collection “Notes of a Native Son” (1955) explains how complex the relationships between the black man and the white man are due to the notion of racism that impacted, and still impacts, the history and how different these relationships are in Europe from America. The author proves what he claims by comparing both personal experience as a black man in Switzerland and racism in America but also with the use of historical facts such as slavery and white people conquests. His aim is to convince the reader that, as he said “this world is white no longer, and it will never be white again”. With some long and complex sentences, it is obvious that the essay is written for people intelligent enough to follow Baldwin’s thoughts and open-minded enough to consider a black man’s opinion and actually consider him as a human being.

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Mia and Jeanne (aka the legends of the L)

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Mia and Jeanne (aka the legends of the L)

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James Baldwin's essay "Stranger in the village" (1953) explains the differences between being a black person in America and in Europe. Through the sharing of his personal experience in Switzerland that he compares to his life in America, Baldwin broadens his argument to a wider thesis; the racism the black man has to face in the US. Baldwin wants to point out the role and treatment his community is now facing in order to denounce the struggles of Afro-Americans. The author adresses his essay to the American population in no regard of their social class as he mixes sophisticated language and personal story.

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James Baldwin’s essay essay « The Stranger in the village » (1953), presents the habitual disrespect and racism of Whites towards the Blacks in America compared to Europe. By telling a story, Baldwin highlights the differences between his personal experience in a small village in Switzerland and his life in the United States. Baldwin’s purpose is to point out that the Black man has written/played a big rôle in the making of today’s America in order to get people to understand that racism is a lack of education. Even though the sophisticated langage and syntax is aimed to be read by a well-educated class, the mention of a simple story makes it more accessible to other classes.

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James Baldwin’s essay, Stranger in the village (1953) argues that black people are struggling to find their place in a white society. Baldwin uses different rhetorical appeal to support his popint, logos , ethos, pathos. The author’s purpose is to point out the racism deeply rooted in white people consciousness in order to denunce that white people don’t want to admit the existence of black people because they see them as a liability. Given the difficult construction of the sentences, the essay was written for a well-educated audience but it's especially directed toward white people to make them realize the situation.

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In his essay «Stranger in the Village» (1953), James Baldwin discusses how black people are treated differently in Switzerland in comparaison to the United States, that the europeans are being ignorant. Baldwin backs this claim up by starting to talk about how people makes him feel like stranger in the small Swiss village and after talk about how black people are treated in general and compared the different attitudes that exist toward them. The author decided to write this work in order to educate people about racism, to show americans that they could have reacted differently.

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James Baldwin in his essay «Stranger in the Village » (195) asserts that « this world is white no longer and will Never be white again ». The author develops this major claim by explaining the impossibility of white people to lead the whole world. His goal here is to make people realize thus fact in order to make discriminations and racism against black people stop. Through his writting, Baldwin expresses himself in front of white American who have struggle understanding that living un an homogenous world is unreal and to black American who do not realize this injustice.

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James Baldwin’s essay , “The stranger in the village”(1953) argues the differences between the American man’s relationship with the black man and the European man’s. By sharing his differents experiences in America and in Europe, Baldwin analyzes the root of the animosity behind the black man's treatment in Europe and America. In order to shed light on the American man’s will to erase his past. Given the topic and Baldwin’s point of view Baldwin is writing to the white Americans

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Stranger in the village was written by James Baldwin, and published in November 21th, 1955 in the compilation of essays named “Notes of a Native Son”. This essay explains that there is a fundamental difference between Europeans and Americans white-black relationships. The author uses his experience as an American black man in a Swiss village to support the idea that the difference is the fact that the European black man does not exist in European white eyes, as they are not directly on the continent and it created an ignorance about the black man with underlying hypocrisy. However, African-Americans can’t be ignored by white American because a new black man that was created by those same white men due to slavery is living on the same land; white Americans wants to be as ignorant as the Europeans, but they cannot since they are confronted to black mans every day. James Baldwin explains this in order to show that the black American man is no longer the same as an African man and the white American man is no longer the same as a European man. His target audience are white people, especially American one to make them stop ignoring the question of black men’s rights in America.

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James Arthur Baldwin is the author of the essay Stranger in the village, an extract from Notes of a native son (1955). In his essay, he counts the experience of being black in a all-white village and asserts that because of racism, people treat him like a stranger whereas

he is in United States or in Switzerland. The author develops his claim by using long and descriptive sentences to set the environment. Moreover he uses a lot of repetitions in order to emphasize his ideas, for example the fact he is excluded.

Besides, J. Baldwin has a relationship with the audience based on the principle of convincing people and especially American population. Indeed he uses an appeal to emotions and also the Pathos, Ethos and Logos which are modes of persuasion  used to convince the audience.

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In his novel «Stranger in the village» in 1953, James Baldwin aims to highligth the difficulties African Americans face living in the United States. Being, himself, a visitor in a all-white small Swiss village while writting this novel, he compares his experience to African Americans whose past is dependent on white european history, but the contrary is not true. He uses his story in order to raise awarness about racism and the way African Americans are treated in the USA. His work is directed to educated and open minded Americans like artists or politicians.

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Anna, Azania, Clément and the most fabulous student that has ever graced this school’s rhetorical precis of the “Stranger in the Village”

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Anna, Azania, Clément and the most fabulous student that has ever graced this school’s rhetorical precis of the “Stranger in the Village”

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James Baldwin’s essay, "The Stranger in the Village” (1953) ),asserts that white Americans denies the existence of the American negro. Baldwin backs this claim up with his personal experience during his stay in Switzerland, which allowed him to touch on a broader subject, the mistreatment of the American negro in the Western society by the comparison of the use of the “n” word in both continents. The homosexual, African-American author aims to denounce the way the American negro is treated as a “stranger” in the United States in order to highlight the difficulties that every Black American faces on a daily basis. The sophisticated language and syntax is directed to everyone, not just the American white population, but also the Black community, which established an intimate relationship with them, due to his personal experience.

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James Baldwin’s essay, “Stranger in the Village” (1953) asserts that white men, do not all hold the same beliefs and hatred towards the black man. Baldwin backs up this claim with the descriptions of the differences between white American culture and the Swiss village, pointing out how a black man is viewed. Balwin’s purpose is to point out the fact that the American “negro” is something unique to the Unites-States, that the black man is as much as stranger in the USA where he has lived for centuries and adopted the lifestyle, as in the Swiss mountains where he has never been seen. Given the sophisticated, striking language and ideas used in this essay, Baldwin is writing to an educated, open minded audience, whether they are black or white. Although it is most likely directed towards an American audience to show that the way they live does not refelct on what a black man “is”.

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In 1953, James Baldwin published his essay “Stranger in the village” which exposes his struggles, being the only African American man in a small European village and battling racism in the United-States. In order to show the two different mentalities, James Baldwin develops this idea through comparing his experience in a small Swiss village, where the question of race does not pose itself and with the American mentality, which consciously establishes racial inequalities. His essay aims to denounce the racism that African Americans suffer from but also to raise awareness among white americans, whom might not acknowledge and understand the difficulties of being perceived as a stranger.

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In 1953, James Baldwin published his essay « Stranger in the village » in Harper’s Magazine in which he discuss « white American »’s racism towards the Black man by comparing it to European ignorance of African race. He is allowed to argue this matter based on his experience in America as a Black man in America and his trip in Switzerland, Europe where he also feels discriminated by the society because of his identity. In this essay, J. Baldwin argues and proves the discrimination Black man suffer from in Europe and America in order to raise awareness about this subject and not necessarily to change people’s opinions and beliefs. The author is trying to have a very neutral view on the matter while discussing society’s behavior and his own, society’s experience and his own, in accordance, Baldwin aims all audiences, not only Black people in America, but also all social classes and all race so they can all build their own opinion while bearing the facts Baldwin states in "Stranger in the Village" in minds.

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