The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race
Summary
"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies... Full description
- The Tradition / by Jericho Brown
- Introduction / by Jesmyn Ward
- Part I: Legacy
- Homegoing, AD / by Kima Jones
- The Weight / by Rachel Ghansah
- Lonely in America / by Wendy S. Walters
- Where Do We Go from Here? / by Isabel Wilkerson
- "The Dear Pledges of Our Love": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
- White Rage / by Carol Anderson
- Cracking the Code / by Jesmyn Ward
- Part II: Reckoning
- Queries of Unrest / by Clint Smith
- Blacker Than Thou / by Kevin Young
- Da Art of Storytellin' (a prequel) / by Kiese Laymon
- Black and Blue / by Garnette Cadogan
- The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning / by Claudia Rankine
- Know Your Rights! / by Emily Raboteau
- Composite Pops / by Mitchell Jackson
- Part III: Jubilee
- Theories of Time and Space / by Natasha Trethewey
- Far: Notes on Love and Revolution / by Daniel Jose Older
- Message to My Daughters / by Edwidge Danticat.