Nobody Knows My Name

catiewithac

Nobody Knows My Name | James Baldwin

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No one gives me the beating heart of America like James Baldwin. A truly essential American writer.

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danx

Nobody Knows My Name | James Baldwin

Picked up this box of books for $4 at a small town op shop yesterday and under the top layer of books was blown away upon finding a 1st edition (although ‘second impression‘) of Nobody Knows My Name as well as two Solzhenitsyn and a bunch of other great titles (and some straight into a trade-in pile). This was a fantastic op shop day.

SRWCF Wow, what a find! 3y

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catiewithac

Nobody Knows My Name | James Baldwin

Lynn, thank you so much for this book! I‘m looking forward to some reading time. And I waited until today to try the See‘s chocolate (yes, absolutely scrumptious!). Happy holidays! #Jolabokaflodswap

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wanderinglynn Happy Christmas! 🎄❤️📚🍫 3y

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Graywacke

Nobody Knows My Name | James Baldwin

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Attacking the American myth of a safe, ordered, innocent past, and the psychology of American racism. This has Baldwin‘s essays on Harlem and after his first tour of the American south - just as school desegregation began. It also has his wonderful attack of William Faulkner.

Graywacke The story of the boy in Charlotte who is the only and first black kid to attend an all-white high school was memorable. This kid was entirely alienated and harassed but determined to get a real education. 5y

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Graywacke

Nobody Knows My Name | James Baldwin

Faulkner—among so many others—is so plaintive concerning this “middle of the road” from which “extremist” elements of both races are driving him that it does not seem unfair to ask just what he has been doing there until now. Where is the evidence of the struggle he has been carrying on there on behalf of the Negro? Why, if he and his enlightened confreres in the South have been boring from within to destroy segregation, do they react ... 👇👇

Graywacke ... with such panic when the walls show any signs of falling? Why—and how—does one move from the middle of the road where one was aiding Negroes into the streets—to shoot them? 5y

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Graywacke

Nobody Knows My Name | James Baldwin

A little stripe of #redwhiteandblue for July 4. Finally getting back to James Baldwin. Here, in Nobody Knows My Names, he‘s so far talking about Harlem and the south ~1960 - a messy era of northern ghetto riots and of school integration but otherwise legal segregation.

Sunraven With bonus sloth mug! 💖 5y

Graywacke @Sunraven 😊 my little sloth balances the ☕️ 5y

Sunraven And the soothing coaster probably helps, too. ✨ 5y

Graywacke @Sunraven ❤️ van Gogh !! 5y

Sunraven 💖👍 🎨 5y

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QuintusMarcus

Nobody Knows My Name | James Baldwin

James Baldwin wrote this over 50 years ago, still completely true today. Baldwin would have been disgusted, but not at all surprised, by yesterday's atrocity in Charlottesville.

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