
Baldwin's searing 1963 essays confronted America's racial divide when civil rights hung in the balance. Influencing generations from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Toni Morrison, this bestseller asks: can love truly overcome hatred? The answer still challenges us six decades later.
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A fourteen-year-old boy stands at a crossroads in Harlem, watching his world transform around him. Girls he once played with now carry themselves with premature weariness, "saving boys for Jesus." His friends settle into a "curious, wary, bewildered despair" as they watch educated men reduced to elevator operators and janitors. This boy is James Baldwin's nephew, and the letter Baldwin writes him cuts through every comfortable illusion about race in America. "You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity that you were a worthless human being," Baldwin tells him-not to wound, but to prepare. Yet what follows isn't despair but something more radical: a call to accept white Americans with love. Not because they've earned it, but because they're "trapped in a history which they do not understand." This love isn't soft. It's the kind that demands truth, accountability, and transformation. It's the foundation for everything Baldwin builds in "The Fire Next Time," a slim volume that landed like a spiritual earthquake in 1963 and continues to shake America's conscience today.
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Criado por ex-alunos da Universidade de Columbia em San Francisco
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