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Synopsis
Ten autobiographical essays that articulate Baldwin's views on race, based on his experiences in the U.S. and in Europe.
| Size | | Length: | 176 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"In his writings Baldwin trenchantly demonstrates the necessity of recognizing our sins: not just racism, but our refusal to really know other humans, to accept differences, and to love....Baldwin's essential message was simple, and very much of its time. America did not have a 'Negro problem'...but a white problem, which consisted in the inability of those who built their identities on being white to face up to the realities either of American history or of their own bodies, feelings and selves..."
Boston Book Review - John Stevenson
"James Baldwin writes down to nobody, and he is trying very hard to write up to himself. As an essayist he is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing."
Civilization - Langston Hughes
"[R]emarkable because of how he uses language to establish a bulwark of order against the chaos. He parts company with black writers of previous generations, and especially Wright, the master of protest literature, by not pleading with whites to acknowledge the humanity of his race."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Julius Lester (01/15/1998)
"It was the first time I had heard a voice capturing the terrible exhilaration and anxiety of being a person of African descent in this country."
essay - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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