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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". The book's title comes from a couplet in some versions of "Mary Don't ...
- James Baldwin
- 1963
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. • "The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates.
- James Baldwin
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- Vintage
103,175 ratings9,387 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 injustice, the book is an ...
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A collection of essays by Baldwin that explore 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.
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 ...
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JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement.
Apr 28, 2019 · The Fire Next Time. Hardcover – Illustrated, April 28, 2019. by James Baldwin (Author), Steve Schapiro (Photographer) 4.8 197 ratings. See all formats and editions. First published in 1963, James Baldwin s The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America s so-called Negro problem. As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and ...
- James Baldwin
