Notes of a Native Son
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Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin
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Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. --back cover
Genres: NonfictionEssaysClassicsRaceMemoirHistoryPoliticsAfrican AmericanBiographySocial Justice
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