- Race relations, African Americans, Social conditions, Blacks
"This is James Baldwin's long-awaited statement on what has happened to America through the political and social agonies of her recent history".
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- James Baldwin
- First published
- January 1, 1986
- Pages
- 197
- Publisher
- Vintage, Penguin Books, Limited, Dial Press,
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307275929
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“"That is a good idea," I heard my mother say.”
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.[1] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin_%28writer%29#Bibliography
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