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A comment on James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere.

Re:James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere by theguppydream on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:39AM (#25989043)
What is a good starting point for reading Baldwin?
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Re:James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere by hardwaregeek on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:54AM (#25989703)
The Fire Next Time has already been mentioned. You can read part of it as published in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-...
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Re:James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere by jazzyb on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:00AM (#25989208)
In addittion to The Fire Next Time, my personal favorites are a series of essays he wrote from the South during desegregation:

A Fly in the Buttermilk

Nobody Knows My Name

Faulkner and Desegregation

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Re:James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere by dvtrn on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:53AM (#25989141)
The Fire Next Time, IMO is a good entrypoint.
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Re:James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere by werber on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:07AM (#25989859)
Go tell it on the mountain, it was his first book and lays the foundation for everything he did later. Amazing book
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