The Fire Next Time

Name: The Fire Next Time
Author: James Baldwin

by James Baldwin

Essay collection exploring African-American identity, Christianity, and American racism

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James Baldwin

America's most brilliant essayist on race, sexuality, and the costs of oppression, Baldwin wrote with a preacher's fire and a novelist's precision. The Fire Next Time is the most powerful essay on American racism in the language. His essays, novels, and plays constitute an indispensable moral witness to 20th-century American life.

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