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Notes of a Native Son

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Beacon Press, Jul 9, 1984 - Biography & Autobiography - 175 pages
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer
 
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.
 
“A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.” —Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review
 
“Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” —Time

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His writing is amazing; his insight provocative. - Goodreads
I do love Baldwin's punchy, brillant, pithy prose. - Goodreads
I want to be an honest man and a good writer. - Goodreads
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User Review  - Judith Johnson - Goodreads

This author is a genius with words and the pictures painted by them. He tells what it is like to be black in a white America in the 50s and 60s. I hope things have gotten better but being white, I am probably not the one to ask. Read full review

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Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin is an interesting look into what it was like living in Harlem in the fifties, traveling through Europe and experiencing a variety of different media, all from ... Read full review

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About the author (1984)

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America's foremost writers. His essays, such as “Notes of a Native Son” (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he primarily made his home in the south of France.
 
His novels include Giovanni’s Room (1956), about a white American expatriate who must come to terms with his homosexuality, and Another Country (1962), about racial and gay sexual tensions among New York intellectuals. His inclusion of gay themes resulted in much savage criticism from the black community. Going to Meet the Man (1965) and Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (1968) provided powerful descriptions of American racism. As an openly gay man, he became increasingly outspoken in condemning discrimination against lesbian and gay people.

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TitleNotes of a Native Son
African American studies: Literature
African-American Studies
Volume 39 of Beacon paperback
Liberation classics
AuthorJames Baldwin
Edition2, illustrated, reprint, reissue
PublisherBeacon Press, 1984
ISBN0807064319, 9780807064313
Length175 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
Political Science / Civil Rights
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  
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