The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01JMZEICO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 449 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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And she has turned to some of her generation's most original thinkers and writers to give voice to their concerns.. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew", which was later published in his landmark book, The Fire Next Time. In response she has gathered short essays, memoir, and a few essential poems to engage the question of race in the United States. National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. Addressing his 15-year-old name
"Still on My Mind" according to Sarah. "The world is before you," I want to tell my daughters, "and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in." --Edwidge Danticat "Message to My Daughters"'The Fire This Time' is a timely, necessary collection of essays on the varied dimensions of Blackness in the contemporary U.S. Divided into three sections--legacy (the past), reckoning (the prese. A dynamite collection of tinglingly good work A thoughtful, moving, and important collection of essays, poems, and other heartfelt reactions to the current state of race relations in the U.S., this should become required reading for all civics and American literature scholars. (I mean that as a compliment.) As a middle-aged white dude myself, I didn't get all the pop-culture references and some of the Afri. A Great Collection I purchased tickets to see Jesmyn Ward at the Schomburg Center in Harlem, so in preparation, I read this book. It was only fitting that I read James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time before diving in. I have quite a few of Ward's books, but I haven't yet read them. This book was my introduction to her work. I am officially a fan. I wholeheartedly believe James Baldw