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The Fire Next Time is a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin, containing two essays: "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind".
Dec 1, 1992 · The Fire Next Time. Paperback – December 1, 1992. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today.
At 106 pages, The Fire Next Time is a brief snapshot of U.S. race relations in 1963. Like a balance sheet it concisely details the nation's racial strengths and (considerable) shortcomings.
All African-American boys around this time in their lives, Baldwin argues, seek out a “gimmick,” or something to occupy themselves with and invest in as a way of coping with the fears instilled in them by a racist society.
About The Fire Next Time. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today.
Dec 1, 1992 · The Fire Next Time. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race...
Apr 28, 2019 · His nonfiction collections, most notably Notes of a Native Son (1955) and The Fire Next Time (1963), and novels, including Giovanni’s Room (1956) and Another Country (1962), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in mid-20th-century America.
The Fire Next Time. James Baldwin. Random House Publishing Group, Jul 6, 2021 - Social Science - 112 pages. A stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood...
The Fire Next Time. James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to...
The Fire Next Time, nonfiction book, published in 1963, comprising two previously published essays in letter form by James Baldwin. In these essays Baldwin warned that, if white America did not change its attitudes and policies toward black Americans and alter the conditions under which blacks were.
