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The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin

February 15, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

When writing about James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates said that Baldwin had the ability to talk through you. What I took that to mean is that Baldwin’s words were such a focused fury, combining intellect and rhetoric that it connected with the reader in a deeper way than most. I felt that somewhat in The Fire Next Time, but I especially feel it in this one, which is almost more personal. Baldwin doesn’t let his foot off the gas for this book-length essay. Drawing on American history, […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Atlanta, Atlanta Child Murders, James Baldwin, Racism, The Evidence of Things Not Seen

Jake's CBR13 Review No:23 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta Child Murders, James Baldwin, Racism, The Evidence of Things Not Seen ·
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Filling in My Gaps

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

December 31, 2020 by thewheelbarrow 5 Comments

I made it a point earlier this year to try to be better. One of the things I told myself that I would do is read more books by black authors, especially those that I should have already read. I was assigned Should of Black Folk in college. I probably still have my copy on a bookshelf in my house but I doubt that I read it for class. Maybe enough to get by in case I was called on but I didn’t really read […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Booker T. Washington, James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois

thewheelbarrow's CBR12 Review No:53 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Booker T. Washington, James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois ·
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That Invisible Frontier

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin

August 12, 2020 by blauracke Leave a Comment

Leo Proudhammer, a 39-year-old, black, successful actor, suffers a heart attack on stage. This prompts him to look back on the events and people that shaped him, from growing up poor in Harlem to trying to make it big in the theatre as a young man, and from his turbulent relationship with his older brother Caleb and his long lasting liaison with the white actress Barbara to his affair with the young revolutionary Christopher. The way James Baldwin dissects race relations in America may be […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, James Baldwin, shelfie

blauracke's CBR12 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, James Baldwin, shelfie ·
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“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

June 14, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 1 Comment

If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others- do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world It is time to listen. James Baldwin had a voice unlike any other. He transcends country, creed, and time. His work is astonishing and terribly important. The […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: American History, Anti-Racism, audio book, Black History, black voices, Civil Rights Movement, essays, James Baldwin, Jesse L Martin, poc, post WWII America, Race, race in america, Racism, Religion, Social Justice

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:58 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: American History, Anti-Racism, audio book, Black History, black voices, Civil Rights Movement, essays, James Baldwin, Jesse L Martin, poc, post WWII America, Race, race in america, Racism, Religion, Social Justice ·
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Across the street from their house, in an empty lot between two houses, stood the rockpile.

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

May 18, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A great collection of short stories by James Baldwin. Generally (if not all of) these stories are near perfect, and a good reminder of how much I really like listening to short story collections on audiobook. The opening story “The Rockpile” is one of those perfect stories (I think “Sonny’s Blues” and “Going to Meet the Man” are the obvious others), begins us with a boy watching his step-brother defy all order to stay in the house and goes to the neighborhood rockpile where there’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Going to Meet the Man, James Baldwin, notes on the native son

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:261 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Going to Meet the Man, James Baldwin, notes on the native son ·
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