The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race

Book 2016

"Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this ... collection of essays and poems about race from ... voices of her generation and our time"-- Provided by publisher.

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African Americans Social conditions 21st century

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ISBN:

9781501126352
9781501126345

Edition:

First Scribner hardcover edition

Description:

viii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents:

"The tradition" / by Jericho Brown
Introduction / by Jesmyn Ward
Homegoing, AD / by Kima Jones
The weight / by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah / Lonely in America / by Wendy S. Walters
Where do we go from here? / by Isabel Wilkerson
"The dear pledges of our love" : a defense of Phillis Wheatley's husband / by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
White rage / by Carol Anderson
Cracking the code / by Jesmyn Ward
Queries of unrest / by Clint Smith
Blacker than thou / by Kevin Young
Da art of storytellin' (a prequel) / by Kiese Laymon
Black and blue / by Garnette Cadogan
The condition of black life is one of mourning / by Claudia Rankine
Know your rights! / by Emily Raboteau
Composite pops / by Mitchell Jackson
Theories of time and space / by Natasha Trethewey
This far : notes on love and revolution / by Daniel José Older
Message to my daughters / by Edwidge Danticat

LCCN:

2016005371

Control Number:

1660773

Other Authors:

Ward, Jesmyn, editor

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