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Notes of a Native Son
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In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction. Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and...
First published: 1955 209 pages
ISBN: 9780807006115
- Category
- Essays
- Priority
- Must-Read
- Author works
- 7
- Language
- eng
African AmericansRace relationsSocial conditionsCivil rightsAfro-AmericansAfrican americans, civil rightsAfrican americans, social conditionsUnited states, race relationsBaldwin, james, 1924-1987Negros
