I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin - Softcover

Baldwin, James; Peck, Raoul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141986670 ISBN 13: 9780141986678

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2017

Synopsis

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film

In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States - then, and today.

'Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man's confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, "devastated my universe"' The New York Times

'Baldwin's voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence' Variety

'A cinematic séance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made' Guardian

'I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet' Rolling Stone

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Review:

Lets James Baldwin's searing work soar . . . you will be astounded by the brilliance of his polemic (Geoffrey Macnab Independent)

A striking work of storytelling . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made . . . This might be the only movie about race relations that adequately explains with sympathy the root causes (Guardian)

Thrilling. . . . A portrait of one man's confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, devastated my universe (New York Times)

Baldwin's voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence (Variety)

I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet

(Rolling Stone)

From the Back Cover:

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man's confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, "devastated my universe"' The New York Times

In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. Now I Am Not Your Negro imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States - then, and today.

'Baldwin's voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence' Variety

'A cinematic séance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made' Guardian

'I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet' Rolling Stone

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0141986670
• ISBN 13: 9780141986678
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144