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Baldwin for Our Times
  • Published: 1 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780807064528
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 63

Baldwin for Our Times

Writings from James Baldwin for an Age of Sorrow and Struggle

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A collection of James Baldwin's writings that speaks urgently to our current era of racial injustice, with an introduction by prominent Baldwin scholar Rich Blint

In his unforgettable, incandescent essays and poetry, James Baldwin diagnosed the racial injustices of the twentieth century and illuminated the struggles and triumphs of African Americans. Now, in our current age of persistent racial injustice and the renewed spirit of activism represented by the Black Lives Matter movement, Baldwin’s insights are more urgent than ever. Baldwin for Our Times features incisive essay selections from Notes of a Native Son and searing poetry from Jimmy’s Blues—writing to turn to for wisdom and strength as we seek to understand and confront the injustices of our times.
  • Published: 1 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780807064528
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 63
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About the author

James Baldwin

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. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.
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Also by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name In The Street; The Devil Finds Work
Dark Days
Another Country
Go Tell it on the Mountain
I Am Not Your Negro
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Praise for Baldwin for Our Times

"The wonderful thing about writers like Baldwin is the way we read them and come across passages that are so arresting we become breathless and have to raise our eyes from the page to keep from being spirited away."
--Edward P. Jones

"He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter...articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time."
--Henry Louis Gates Jr.

"James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. His honesty and courage would lead him to see truth and to write truth in poetry, drama, fiction and essay. He was a giant."
--Maya Angelou