Advent Calendar Day 12: ‘Notes of a Native Son’ by James Baldwin

Early in the New Year, Beacon will be reissuing some of their classics.

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“Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin’s timeless and moving essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad inaugurated him as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the 20th century. Through a mix of autobiographical and analytical essays, Baldwin delivers honest and raw revelations about what it means to be Black in America, specifically pre-Civil Rights Movement, and how, he himself, came to understand the nation.”

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