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I Am Not Your Negro

by Unknown Author

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144 pages2017Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780141986685

About this book

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined them to compose his Academy Award-nominated documentary.<br><br>“Thrilling…. A portrait of one man’s confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, ‘devastated my universe.’” —<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>Peck weaves these texts together, brilliantly imagining the book that Baldwin never wrote with selected published and unpublished passages, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Peck’s film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin’s private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.<br><br>This edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the film.

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Published
2017
Pages
144
ISBN
9780141986685

About Unknown Author

James Baldwin (1841–1925) was an American educator and administrator. He served as the superintendent of Indiana's school system for 18 years and then went on to become a widely published textbook editor and children's author in the subjects of legends, mythology, biography, and literature, among others.

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