Baldwin's Harlem

Baldwin's Harlem
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 281
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781416548126
ISBN-13 : 1416548122
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Baldwin's Harlem by : Herb Boyd

Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). The events there that shaped his youth greatly influenced Baldwin's work, much of which focused on his experiences as a black man in white America. Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Fire Next Time, Notes of a Native Son, and Giovanni's Room are just a few of his classic fiction and nonfiction books that remain an essential part of the American canon. In Baldwin's Harlem, award-winning journalist Herb Boyd combines impeccable biographical research with astute literary criticism, and reveals to readers Baldwin's association with Harlem on both metaphorical and realistic levels. For example, Boyd describes Baldwin's relationship with Harlem Renaissance poet laureate Countee Cullen, who taught Baldwin French in the ninth grade. Packed with telling anecdotes, Baldwin's Harlem illuminates the writer's diverse views and impressions of the community that would remain a consistent presence in virtually all of his writing. Baldwin's Harlem provides an intelligent and enlightening look at one of America's most important literary enclaves.

Baldwin's Harlem

Baldwin's Harlem
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 274
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780743293082
ISBN-13 : 0743293088
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Baldwin's Harlem by : Herb Boyd

An enlightening portrait of the life and genius of one of the most brilliant and important literary minds of the twentieth century: James Baldwin.

A Rap on Race

A Rap on Race
Author :
Publisher : Laurel
Total Pages : 231
Release :
ISBN-10 : 044021176X
ISBN-13 : 9780440211761
Rating : 4/5 (6X Downloads)

Synopsis A Rap on Race by : James Baldwin

A black writer's emotional response to American racism is juxtaposed with the logical analyses of a social scientist

The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 270
Release :
ISBN-10 : 3836551039
ISBN-13 : 9783836551038
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fire Next Time by : James Baldwin

First published in 1963, James Baldwin's A Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called ldquo;Negro problemrdquo;. As remarkable for its masterful prose as it is for its uncompromising account of black experience in the United States, it is considered to this day one of the most articulate and influential expressions of 1960s race relations. The book consists of two essays, ldquo;My Dungeon Shook mdash; Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,rdquo; and ldquo;Down At The Cross mdash; Letter from a Region of My Mind.rdquo; It weaves thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the so-say ldquo;land of the freerdquo;, insisting on the inequality implicit to American society. ldquo;You were born where you were born and faced the future that you facedrdquo;, Baldwin writes to his nephew, ldquo;because you were black and for no other reason.rdquo; His profound sense of injustice is matched by a robust belief in ldquo;monumental dignityrdquo;, in patience, empathy, and the possibility of transforming America into ldquo;what America must become.rdquo;

If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In)

If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In)
Author :
Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 210
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780525566120
ISBN-13 : 0525566120
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In) by : James Baldwin

A stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review). "One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The Philadelphia Inquirer Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions—affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

The Harlem Ghetto

The Harlem Ghetto
Author :
Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 122
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780807018668
ISBN-13 : 080701866X
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The Harlem Ghetto by : James Baldwin

This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the realities of Black life in mid-century US Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays "The Harlem Ghetto," "Journey to Atlanta," and "Notes of a Native Son" will appeal to those interested in the personal and political turmoil of Baldwin's life. “The Harlem Ghetto” introduces readers to the extremities of life in Baldwin’s native city. “Journey to Atlanta” depicts the faulty relationship between the Black community and the politician, following a quartet called The Melodeers on a trip to Atlanta under the auspices of the Progressive Party. Baldwin concludes this collection with “Notes of A Native Son,” a powerful autobiographical essay about his fractured relationship with his father. The Harlem Ghetto: Essays explores the American condition through a mix of analytic and autobiographical essays. This second collection in the Baldwin centennial anniversary series is Baldwin’s most personal as he grapples with his childhood and his own affinity with Blackness.

Little Man, Little Man

Little Man, Little Man
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 147800004X
ISBN-13 : 9781478000044
Rating : 4/5 (4X Downloads)

Synopsis Little Man, Little Man by : James Baldwin

Now available for the first time in nearly 40 years. Baldwin's only children's book follows the day-to-day life of four-year-old TJ and his friends in their Harlem neighborhood as they encounter the social realities of being black in America in the 1970s. Full color.

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Author :
Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 499
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780804149709
ISBN-13 : 0804149704
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

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

A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war. "Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers." —Saturday Review At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is overpowering in its vitality and extravagant in the intensity of its feeling.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin
Author :
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Total Pages : 112
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0531158632
ISBN-13 : 9780531158630
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis James Baldwin by : Ted Gottfried

Discusses Baldwin's childhood in Harlem, his expatriate experiences, and his return to the U.S. in the 1960s to work for the Civil Rights movement

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Author :
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages : 99
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250886729
ISBN-13 : 1250886724
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Evidence of Things Not Seen by : James Baldwin

Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country. Baldwin's incisive analysis implicates the failures of integration as the guilt party, arguing, "There could be no more devastating proof of this assault than the slaughter of the children." As Stacey Abrams writes in her foreword, "The humanity of black children, of black men and women, of black lives, has ever been a conundrum for America. Forty years on, Baldwin's writing reminds us that we have never resolved the core query: Do black lives matter? Unequivocally, the moral answer is yes, but James Baldwin refuses such rhetorical comfort." In this, his last book, by excavating American race relations Baldwin exposes the hard-to-face ingrained issues and demands that we all reckon with them.