Description: A stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first published in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington
“The finest essay I’ve ever read.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Between the World and Me
With clarity, conviction, and passion, James Baldwin delivers a dire warning of the effects of racism that remains urgent nearly sixty years after its original publication.
In the first of two essays, “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation,” Baldwin offers kind and unflinching counsel on what it means to be Black in the United States and explains the twisted logic of American racism.
In “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind,” Baldwin recounts his spiritual journey into the church after a religious crisis at the age of fourteen, and then back out of it again, as well as his meeting with Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam. Throughout, Baldwin urges us to confront the oppressive institutions of race, religion, and nationhood itself, and insists that shared resilience among both Black and white people is the only way forward. As much as it is a reckoning with America’s racist past, The Fire Next Time is also a clarion call to care, courage, and love, and a candle to light the way.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Fire Next Time
Number of Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: Islamic Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2021
Genre: Social Science
Item Weight: 6.6 Oz
Item Length: 7.5 in
Author: James Baldwin
Item Width: 4.9 in
Format: Hardcover
