The Fire Next Time
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (987 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0014EAHHM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 225 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
"By far one of the best works I've ever read" according to Erin. Growing up as the daughter of white parents in the Deep South, while my parents did everything in their power to try and keep us from using racial slurs, there was so much racism imbedded in the area that it was nearly impossible to fight it. It ranged from the blatant to the subtle, and it stuck in ways that I will probably be discovering for the rest of my life. Baldwin touches upon the use of religion to control, and the belief that the white man is the marker to which the bl. "Must Read for All Americans" according to KarenEvans. This is a book to read with a pen! My copy, brand new, and fresh from the mailbox now has underlining everywhere and notes filling the margins. The language is beautiful in this book and there is a lot of wisdom to gather. This is my first James Baldwin and I crave more!The book consists of two letters, a short one written to a nephew and a longer one written to discuss his thoughts and feelings about race, religion, and life. This is the most beautiful description in the entire. Essential Jessica Weil A beautifully crafted, emotionally and intellectually charged plea to the American people during the nascent Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin writes with passion, candor, desperation and hope, providing critical insight into the realities of being black in America. He conveys a clear sense of urgency, challenging Americans to reckon with the legacy of racism and reject the delusion that skin color determines value or worth.Perhaps most surprising to me in reading Baldwin for the f
What's incredible is that he managed to keep his cool. But what binds it all together is the eloquence, intimacy, and controlled urgency of the voice. Yet despite its edgy tone and the strong undercurrent of violence, The Fire Next Time is ultimately a hopeful and healing essay. Baldwin clearly paid in sweat and shame for every word in this text. Baldwin ranges far in these hundred pages--from a memoir of his abortive teenage religious awakening in Harlem (an interesting commentary on his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain) to a disturbing encounter with Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. "Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?" Baldwin demands, flicking aside the central race issue of his day and calling instead for full and shared acceptance of the fact that America is and always has been a multiracial society. --David Laskin. Without this acceptance, he argues, the nation dooms itself to "sterility and de