The Fire This Time A New Generation Speaks About Race

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Publisher's Synopsis

"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. 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. Addressing his fifteen-year-old namesake on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Baldwin wrote: "You know and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon." Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward knows that Baldwin's words ring as true as ever today. In response, she has gathered short essays, memoir, and a few essential poems to engage the question of

Book information

ISBN: 9781501126345
Publisher: Scribner
Imprint: Scribner
Pub date:
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition
DEWEY: 305.896073
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: viii, 226
Weight: 349g
Height: 213mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 25mm