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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Contributor(s): Ward, Jesmyn (Author)

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ISBN: 1501126350     ISBN-13: 9781501126352
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
- Social Science | Minority Studies
Dewey: 305.896
Lexile Measure: 1230(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" L (0.45 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Black History
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 184116
Reading Level: 8.2   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 9.0
 
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Publisher Description:
The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race--collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation--are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words are important, because of their power to both cleanse and to clarify" (USA TODAY).

In this bestselling, widely lauded collection, Jesmyn Ward gathers our most original thinkers and writers to speak on contemporary racism and race, including Carol Anderson, Jericho Brown, Edwidge Danticat, Kevin Young, Claudia Rankine, and Honoree Jeffers. "An absolutely indispensable anthology" (Booklist, starred review), The Fire This Time shines a light on the darkest corners of our history, wrestles with our current predicament, and imagines a better future.

Envisioned as a response to The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin's groundbreaking 1963 essay collection, these contemporary writers reflect on the past, present, and future of race in America. We've made significant progress in the fifty-odd years since Baldwin's essays were published, but America is a long and painful distance away from a "post-racial society"--a truth we must confront if we are to continue to work towards change. Baldwin's "fire next time" is now upon us, and it needs to be talked about; The Fire This Time "seeks to place the shock of our own times into historical context and, most importantly, to move these times forward" (Vogue).


Contributor Bio(s): Ward, Jesmyn: - Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, and the Strauss Living Prize. She is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) and Salvage the Bones (2011). She is also the author of the novel Where the Line Bleeds and the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.
 
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