Do you feel Baldwin wrote his essays with a specific audience in mind? Who do you think he is addressing, if so?
I think he wrote primarily to the White audience, but also to a lesser extent to a Black audience. For me (Black), I hear him saying " Can you believe they actually put that stuff in a movie?!" in an incredulous tone! 
Definitely a white audience for educating and a lack audience for understanding..
I think for both. I learned from this but I know from a White point of view and thinking ‘I should have seen this before’. I think a Black person would be thinking what he had to say was obvious.