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Nothing Personal: an Essay by James Baldwin [Baldwin, James] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Nothing Personal: an Essay about?

James Baldwin?s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition,? Nothing Personal ?is Baldwin?s deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 ? which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supremacists entered the US Capitol with little resistance, openly toting flags of the Confederacy ? Baldwin?s documentation of his own troubled times cuts to the core of where we find ourselves today. Baldwin?s thoughts move through an interconnected range of questions, from America?s fixation on eternal youth, to its refusal to recognize the past, its addiction to consumerism, and the lovelessness that fuels it in its cities and popular culture. He recounts his own encounter with police in a scene disturbingly similar to those we see today documented with ever increasing immediacy. This edition also includes a new foreword from interdisciplinary scholar Imani Perry and an afterword from noted Baldwin scholar Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Who reads Nothing Personal: an Essay?

Author

James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

Publisher

Beacon Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807006429

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities