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Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. --back cover
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It is overwhelming the truth that Baldwin speaks in his essays. The way he illustrates and talks about racial issues and the American perspective vs European perspective of Black people. It took me a while to get through this book because of the honesty and the depth of every passage. It hurts to see how little things have changed since this book was published in 1955 and I hope that the movements happening today in 2020 will provoke and create real lasting change.
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