James Baldwin’s Many Heirs
The writer James Baldwin has long been relevant, but in 2016, 50 years after the civil rights movement’s peak, he seems downright prophetic. A poet at his core, Baldwin was that rare and rarefied black critic of his time who expressed hope and fear for the future of black America, and for America as a whole, in equal and passionate measure. In his essays, most famously “The Fire Next Time,” he argued with himself at length about how, and whether, this country could save itself from the white supremacy... Читать дальше...