Paper by Garrett James Wyatt. “The first thing you do in the United States of America when a white woman is raped is round up a bunch of black youths…” —Reverend Calvin O. Butts, The New York Times: “In Jogger Case, Once Viewed Starkly, Some Skeptics Side With Defendants” James Baldwin’s 1974 novel If Beale … Continue reading The First Thing You Do in the United States of America: An Analysis of the Documentary Elements in “If Beale Street Could Talk”