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Media type. Hardcover. Pages. 128. ISBN. 0-679-74472-X. (Vintage Books, 1994) 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".
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A collection of essays by Baldwin that explores the themes of race, identity, and history in America. The book opens with a letter to his nephew, urging him to resist the oppression and ignorance of white society, and continues with personal and political reflections on the challenges and hopes of black Americans.
Nov 2, 2016 · How does Baldwin's 1962 essay on the \"Negro problem\" relate to the contemporary movement for racial justice? This article explores Baldwin's radical critique of American society and his influence on #BlackLivesMatter activists.
Dec 1, 1992 · Learn more about Great on Kindle, available in select categories. View Kindle Edition. 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.
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James Baldwin. 4.54. 101,458 ratings9,196 reviews. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial ...
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Dec 25, 2017 · Buckley called “The Fire Next Time” a “poignant essay threatening the whites” — a call for “the end of Christian Civilization” that amounted to “morose nihilism.” But Baldwin made the...
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.
