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'Confining Structures'
So his real flight from the
"confining structures" of
ghetto imprisonment results in
his actual imprisonment behind
bars. But Thomas moves to a
state of consciousness outside
human "justice," Mr. Baker
claimed, and achieves a final
existential freedom.
The autobiography of CD/Arthur Laurent
Malcolm X follows the same
pattern: movement from one
state of imprisonment to
another not far removed. Mr.
Baker asserted Malcolm X moves
away from mainstream Prof. Houston A. Baker
American capitalistic values to
the founding of a "new
society" based on Muslim
belief.
The narrative is a process of
ceaseless motion, similar to the
myth of Sisyphus, whose rock,
after it rolls down the hill, is
not far from where he began.
The Cavalier daily Wednesday, February 21, 1973 | ||