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Nothing Personal Cover Page Footnote Of course, no one articulates the blues vision better than our own prophet laureate, James Baldwin. Reprinted here, with the author's permission, is Baldwin's text from a book of photographs by Richard Avedon, Nothing Personal (Lucerne, Switzerland: C. H. Bucher, 1964).
Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin's deep probe James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.
May 6, 2021 · May 6, 2021. Nothing Personal is an extraordinary piece of writing—perhaps one of James Baldwin’s most complex essays. In a moment of profound transition in his life as a “witness” and within the compact space of four relatively brief sections, Baldwin lays bare many of the central themes of his corpus. He writes about history, identity ...
- Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Nov 6, 2017 · “Nothing Personal” is riddled with these questions of identity—what makes a self?—a question that gave a certain thirteen-year-old ideas about the questions he might ask in this world: Who ...
- Hilton Als
James Baldwin’s essay, Nothing Personal, was first released in 1964 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. It was accompanied by photos by Richard Avedoon. Finally, in 2021, it was released on its own with a Forward by Imani Perry and Afterword by Eddie S Glaudo Jr.
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May 4, 2021 · Nothing Personal. James Baldwin. Beacon Press, May 4, 2021 - Social Science - 104 pages. James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his...
About Nothing Personal. James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.
