sentences:  Baldwin further goes on to explain the relationship between American and European history, by explicitly pointing out that American history encompasses the history of the Negro, while European history lacks the African-American dimension.Baldwin observes that in America the Negro is “an inescapable part of the general social fabric” and that “Americans attempt until today to make an abstraction of the Negro” (“Stranger” 125).Baldwin argues that white Americans try to retain a separation between their history and black history despite the interdependence between the two.