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charity_royall_331 's review for:
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Also 1 February 1990.
Very often since his early death, I have had cause to wonder what Baldwin would say about race and class relations in the United States. Despair over the recent police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner sent me back to this powerful and indispensable book in search of solace, hope, perspective. We might, as a nation, find those things in Baldwin's work and an honest dialogue about it; why is it that this book isn't required reading across the country?
Very often since his early death, I have had cause to wonder what Baldwin would say about race and class relations in the United States. Despair over the recent police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner sent me back to this powerful and indispensable book in search of solace, hope, perspective. We might, as a nation, find those things in Baldwin's work and an honest dialogue about it; why is it that this book isn't required reading across the country?