美国黑人民族斗争史是一部血泪史。黑人对于自己身份的焦虑使他们一直都被视为“他者”。一些黑人置身于美国白人社之外,成为主流社会的“他者”;另一些黑人则变成了同时置身于美国白人社会和黑人社区之外的双重“他者”。詹姆斯·鲍德温在《桑尼的布鲁斯》中刻画了这两类“他者”的形象,并指出他们走出迷茫的道路。 The history of African-American national struggles is a bloody history. Negroes’ anxiety about their identity has always led them to be considered ’other’. Some blacks are outside the White American community and become the “other” of the mainstream. Others are black and white as the “other” outside of both American white and black communities. James Baldwin portrays the images of these two types of “The Other” in “The Blues of Sonny,” noting that they are out of a confused path.