11/30/2023 0 Comments The grass is singing shmoopBy my count, The Fire Next Time contains the word race four times, but love, 55. “In desperation,” she writes, “I sought James Baldwin.”īaldwin has been such a compelling voice on race, we may forget that he was equally searching on love. Jesmyn Ward titled her 2016 essay anthology of black writers The Fire This Time, where she recounts feeling adrift as she struggles to cope with the murders of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and other young black men. Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote his memoir Between the World and Me (2015) as a letter to his teenage son, directly invoking Baldwin’s addressing his teenage nephew in The Fire Next Time. His presence is at times almost palpable. JAMES BALDWIN HAS GROWN into the wise, guiding elder of the United States’s fractured racial conversation.
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