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Another Country by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by ...Show more
Dark Days (Mini Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on his own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, James Baldwin's searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin; Edwidge Danticat (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
This haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin's childhood in Harlem, is an American classic. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin's first major work. With a potent combination of lyrical compassion and resonant rage, he portrays a fourteen-year-old bo ...Show more
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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Category: General
The inspiration for the upcoming feature film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins 'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of ...Show more
James Baldwin - Collected Essays by James Baldwin; Toni Morrison (ed.)
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Library of America James Baldwin Edition Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black Lives Matter movement or in the words of ...Show more
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native So ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
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Category: General | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
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 st ...Show more
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