The Fire This Time
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933633247 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 149 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He work has been awarded a Guggenheim, Whiting Writers Award, Sherwood Anderson Award, John Dos Passos Award, and Rome Prize. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Randall Kenan is the author of several books including James Baldwin: American Writer, and Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the 21st Century
From Publishers Weekly Kenan's latest, alternating memoir and commentary, is an intelligent homage to James Baldwin's celebrated 1963 The Fire Next Time, and an important book in its own right. Kenan poses many difficult questions, such as why the high school dropout rate among African-Americans is so high, why African-Americans pay higher mortgage rates and why CDC estimates say one in three black gay men are HIV positive, making this book a perfect catalyst for lively discussion, and a fine state-of-the-issues update on Baldwin's 45-year-old touchstone. All rights reserved. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Early on, an especially vibrant memory of his surrogate
E. Simpson, Clarence Thomas, Rodney King, Sean “Puffy” Combs, George Foreman, and Barack Obama.Published to mark the forty-fifth anniversary of James Baldwin’s epochal work, this homage by novelist, essayist, and Baldwin biographer Kenan is itself a piercing consideration of the times, and an impassioned call to transcend them.Randall Kenan is the author of the biography James Baldwin: American Writer, and the collection of oral histories Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the 21st Century, as well as the novel A Visitation of Spirits, and the short story collection Let the Dead Bury Their Dead. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.. J. His work has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and numerous other prizes. “Randall Kenan
Destined to become a classic. Inder Dhillon Randall Kenan has written a classic. Using his deep erudition, years of travel around the country studying the state of African-American affairs, and using evocative illustrations from contemporary lives - both his own and those of others - he has written a timeless work that will deserve its own response 50 years from now. As the father of a young African-American son and daughter, I hope that one day my children will read Kenan. Thought provoking! Sheila Anderson Randall continues to show how important dialog is amongst African-Americans. He is one of the great thinkers today. This book is a must read.. D. O'Connell said Puzzled. The only title by this name that I know of was written by Ramsey Clark about our unjust/corrupt invasion of the middle east right at the very beginning. He was our nations AG and was vilified as a "kook" or conspiracy theorist by the media/wealthy/military yet what he wrote was absolutely true as we've later concluded in hind sight. I gave this author 5 stars since this doesn't reflect on his ability or his work and find it to un