The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
- ISBN-10
- 1501126350
- ISBN-13
- 9781501126352
- Series
- The Fire This Time
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-06-20
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Jesmyn Ward
Description
"Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this ... collection of essays and poems about race from ... voices of her generation and our time"--
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