The Man Who Cried I Am

Name: The Man Who Cried I Am
Author: John A. Williams

by John A. Williams

Novel about a Black man's journey through racism and identity in postwar America

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John A. Williams

John A. Williams was a pioneering African American novelist whose The Man Who Cried I Am exposed the mechanisms of white power with passionate urgency. His fiction helped establish the tradition of the Black literary protest novel in the 1960s.

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