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A review by thechanelmuse
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
5.0
"You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in this world, but then you read." Those are the words of the late great James Baldwin.
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race is a raw, thought-provoking anthology of writings by historians, essayists, novelists, and poets that take you on personal journeys through the modern-day Black American experience, and uncovers chilling, historic findings from the past that carry into the present. It's the commitment to remain unapologetic and hopeful despite generational pain. Like Jesmyn Ward says, "What Baldwin understood is that to be black in America is to have the demand for dignity be at absolute odds with the national anthem."
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race is a raw, thought-provoking anthology of writings by historians, essayists, novelists, and poets that take you on personal journeys through the modern-day Black American experience, and uncovers chilling, historic findings from the past that carry into the present. It's the commitment to remain unapologetic and hopeful despite generational pain. Like Jesmyn Ward says, "What Baldwin understood is that to be black in America is to have the demand for dignity be at absolute odds with the national anthem."