Dark Days
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Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The way Baldwin's non-fiction does thinking and words, honestly. Unparalleled. These three little essays (Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt) are concise, brutally to the point and an impeccable mix of personal narrative and political analysis. I dare you to read this and not feel. when he was dead, I realized that I would have done anything whatever to have been able to hold him in this world CW: systemic racism, racism, mentions of suicides, lynchings - not descriptive rather matter-of-fact, analysis of white supremacist ideology.
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Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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The way Baldwin's non-fiction does thinking and words, honestly. Unparalleled. These three little essays (Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The White Man's Guilt) are concise, brutally to the point and an impeccable mix of personal narrative and political analysis. I dare you to read this and not feel. when he was dead, I realized that I would have done anything whatever to have been able to hold him in this world CW: systemic racism, racism, mentions of suicides, lynchings - not descriptive rather matter-of-fact, analysis of white supremacist ideology.