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Baldwin James - Fire Next Time - Hardcover

Baldwin James - Fire Next Time - Hardcover

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Description: A stirring intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers first published in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington The finest essay I ve ever read. Ta - Nehisi Coates #1 New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Between the World and Me With clarity conviction and passion James Baldwin delivers a dire warning of the effects of racism that remains urgent nearly sixty years after its original publication. In the first of two essays My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation Baldwin offers kind and unflinching counsel on what it means to be Black in the United States and explains the twisted logic of American racism. In Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind Baldwin recounts his spiritual journey into the church after a religious crisis at the age of fourteen and then back out of it again as well as his meeting with Elijah Muhammad the leader of the Nation of Islam. Throughout Baldwin urges us to confront the oppressive institutions of race religion and nationhood itself and insists that shared resilience among both Black and white people is the only way forward. As much as it is a reckoning with America's racist past The Fire Next Time is also a clarion call to care courage and love and a candle to light the way.
Title: Fire Next Time
Author(s): Baldwin James
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780679601517
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 7/6/2021
Series: Modern Library
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
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