The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next TimeAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the

When the two meet at the swimming pool

The decorations include depictions of the four elements—earth

subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs

tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation

never fully escaping the legacy of abuse

Battlefield strategies

a racializing aesthetic gaze

Back in print in this deluxe edition

where he came to edit the influential—but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency—African Commentary magazine

Inspire your inner powerhouse with empowering broadsides with quotes from history's most influential women

But lately the structure of her society--the fancy parties

The physical transmission of the Aristotelian corpus was a long