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The Fire Next Time is a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin, containing two essays: "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind".
All African-American boys around this time in their lives, Baldwin argues, seek out a “gimmick,” or something to occupy themselves with and invest in as a way of coping with the fears instilled in them by a racist society.
21 de fev. de 2021 · A poderosa escrita de James Baldwin em “The Fire Next Time”. “A arte pode funcionar para evocar emoção, para contar histórias e amplificar vozes, para atingir os grupos de pessoas com beleza e verdade, e para informar as pessoas das injustiças sociais.”. – Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.
1 de dez. de 1992 · Truth telling and profound, The Fire Next Time is a riveting essay that when you read it the feeling is like being in a conversation with a prophet, James Baldwin. Like nothing I have read, Baldwin’s points resonate like prophecy; points which are especially relevant to our current times!
- James Baldwin
About The Fire Next Time. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today.
2 de nov. de 2016 · American society itself—its fundamental assumptions and underlying logic—needs scrutiny. Despite these sentiments, The Fire Next Time rarely finds its way into discussions of a truly progressive stance on Black liberation.
25 de dez. de 2017 · Buckley called “The Fire Next Time” a “poignant essay threatening the whites” — a call for “the end of Christian Civilization” that amounted to “morose nihilism.”
