The Fire Next Time
by:
James Baldwin (author)
Since it was first published, this famous study of the Black Problem in America has become a classic. Powerful, haunting and prophetic, it sounds a clarion warning to the world.
Since it was first published, this famous study of the Black Problem in America has become a classic. Powerful, haunting and prophetic, it sounds a clarion warning to the world.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140182750 (0140182756)
Publish date: July 1st 2007
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
African American,
Politics,
Race
There they (police officers) stood, in twos and threes and fours, in their Cub Scout uniforms and with their Cub Scout faces, totally unprepared, as is the way with American he-men, for anything that could not be settled with a club or a fist or a gun. Terrible how much this text is still relevant,...
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line" ισχυρίζεται ο W. E. B. DuBois.Τη συγκεκριμένη συλλογή απαρτίζουν δύο κείμενα, το πρώτο είναι ένα γράμμα του συγγραφέα προς τον ανηψιό του, με διδακτικό, συμβουλευτικό χαρακτήρα, εν είδει προετοιμασίας για τον λευκό κόσμο ο οποίο...
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line" ισχυρίζεται ο W. E. B. DuBois.Τη συγκεκριμένη συλλογή απαρτίζουν δύο κείμενα, το πρώτο είναι ένα γράμμα του συγγραφέα προς τον ανηψιό του, με διδακτικό, συμβουλευτικό χαρακτήρα, εν είδει προετοιμασίας για τον λευκό κόσμο ο οποίο...
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin As I began to read the first of two letters in this brief book written in 1963, I was struck by the message which seemed to contain elements of hopeless resignation and self-loathing. It was a letter that outlined injustice and placed blame on many shoulders. It ope...
“...if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.” “White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love th...
Log in with Facebook 
