Contributions

  • Jones, Edward P. - Contributor

Publication

2012 - Beacon Press, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

52,000 words, Guess

Page Count

208 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC305.8/96073
  • LCCE185.61 .B2 2012

Description

Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. “A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.” —Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review “Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” —Time

Description

The author shares his views of black thought and the conditions of black life in America during the 1940's and early 1950's.

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