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Trailblazer. Activist. Visionary. James Baldwin inspired countless artists with his pointed, elegant and electric work — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Jason Reynolds, to name a few. Showcasing his inimitable voice through essays on culture, politics and identity, Notes of a Native Son is a revolutionary, necessary read.
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by The Guardian and TIME
The essays in James Baldwin's first nonfiction collection explore what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, he probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatria...
The essays in James Baldwin's first nonfiction collection explore what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, he probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatria...
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