Student Text: The Fire Next Time (Hardcover) by James Baldwin

from whitewavedarling

Baldwin's discussion of race in America is telling and evocative, worth reading even now. It is worth time not only because of his passionate voice and intelligent look at the world around him in civil rights-era America, but for the reflection it gives of the world we still live in. In showing r...

from jonbrammer

Baldwin continues the tradition of Douglass and Dubois as a great American public intellectual. There are some passages here that should be etched in granite; his lingering question at the end- "What will happen to all that beauty?" - is the essential American question. What beauty are we willing...

from secondhandrose

Short, incisive essays on race relations in the USA. Published in 1963 and still amazingly relevant.

from DavidAPino

If one wants an understanding of race in the United States, particularly White supremacy against the Black community, I recommend you read "The Fire Next Time." James Baldwin is in a master class when it comes to writing about racism in the US and his seminal work, The Fire Next Time, only serves...

from steve02476

I'd never read this classic before, but it seemed very familiar, I guess I've read quotes from it all my life. Very poetic, what a great writer.