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It's shocking how little has changed between the races in this country since 1963, when James Baldwin published this coolly impassioned plea to "end the racial nightmare." The Fire Next Time--even the title is beautiful, resonant, and incendiary. "Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?" Baldwin demands, flicking aside the central race issue of his day and calling instead for full and shared acceptance of the fact that America is and always has been a multiracial society. Without this acceptance, he argues, the nation dooms itself to "sterility and decay" and to eventual destruction at the hands of the oppressed: "The Negroes of this country may never be able to rise to power, but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream." Baldwin's seething insights and directives, so disturbing to the white liberals and black moderates of his day, have become the starting point for discussions of American race relations: that debasement and oppression of one people by another is "a recipe for murder"; that "color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality"; that whites can only truly liberate themselves when they liberate blacks, indeed when they "become black" symbolically and spiritually; that blacks and whites "deeply need each other here" in order for America to realize its identity as a nation. Yet despite its edgy tone and the strong undercurrent of violence, The Fire Next Time is ultimately a hopeful and healing essay. Baldwin ranges far in these hundred pages--from a memoir of his abortive teenage religious awakening in Harlem (an interesting commentary on his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain) to a disturbing encounter with Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. But what binds it all together is the eloquence, intimacy, and controlled urgency of the voice. Baldwin clearly paid in sweat and shame for every word in this text. What's incredible is that he managed to keep his cool. --David Laskin
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"Basically the finest essay I’ve ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone’s hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you." --Ta-Nehisi Coates"So eloquent in its passion and so scorching in its candor that it is bound to unsettle any reader." --The Atlantic
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Product details
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reissue edition (December 1, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780679744726
ISBN-13: 978-0679744726
ASIN: 067974472X
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.3 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
213 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#3,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I read this 53 years after its publication (just 10 days before the 2016 US Presidential election). The first essay (a letter to his nephew) was written on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The second essay, "Down at the Cross," makes up over 110 pages of this book and explores a few major experiences and sentiments.A number of points/instances jump out:1) As a young man, Baldwin believed he could do anything a young white man could do. This terrified his father, whose experiences taught him that white power constantly sought to limit, exploit or desecrate black people (particularly young black men). As time went by and Baldwin grew up, he had experienced a great amount of injustice at the hands (or through the words) of white people. He was quite forceful in his writing about how much oppression blacks experienced everyday, and how white people refused to acknowledge this reality, even when it was presented to them (sadly, this resonates in 2016).2) As a teenager, Baldwin served in the Christian church and delivered sermons. "I felt that I was committing a crime in talking about the gentle Jesus, in telling them to reconcile themselves to their misery on earth in order to gain the crown of eternal life." This is one of the all time great criticisms of the Christian religion (and obviously Mr. Baldwin was not the first one to offer it up).3) He wrote about the hypocrisy of the ministers collecting money from poor blacks who scrubbed floors but used that money to drive around in Cadillacs and live in nice houses.4) The spreading of the gospel "was an absolutely indispensable justification for planting of the flag." Again, this is not a new thought, but it is interesting coming from a black man who served as a youth minister.5) There are a brutal few paragraphs about the fact that blacks served in the armed forces in WW2 and fought in segregated units and despite their service, were still outcasts back in the states. Baldwin ties their service and the forces the allies conquered as having a direct influence on the desegregation of the military, society and the schools.6) "In the United States, violence and heroism have been made synonymous except when it comes to blacks." This is still a fair and valid point in 2016.7) Mr. Baldwin had a dinner with Elijah Muhammed in Chicago. He wrote about Elijah's power, charisma, singular focus and their talk over dinner. Mr. Baldwin is critical of Mr. Muhammed's teachings, though he does not offer them up during their dinner. Mr. Muhammed is gracious and polite throughout the entirety of the evening. Before one considers Mr. Baldwin a fringe black radical, one must read about his evening with Elijah Muhammed.8) "The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed that collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen, or that Americans are invincible in battle and wise in peace." This was controversial and incendiary in 1963, and it remains so in 2016. Again, it is fascinating and disturbing how divided white and blacks still are in America in their perceptions of this nation and its history.In the end, Mr. Baldwin stresses that both races must work together or that our nation will perish. The meaning of the title is explained in the last lines of the second essay.The second essay could be organized better - perhaps divided into chapters. Mr. Baldwin moves from point to point, sometimes slowly and sometimes very quickly. While his observations are interesting and often jarring, it would have been better for him to back them up with facts, statistics and other information. There are times that the words and thoughts run on - the reader needs to pause and take a breather.
This is a book to read with a pen! My copy, brand new, and fresh from the mailbox now has underlining everywhere and notes filling the margins. The language is beautiful in this book and there is a lot of wisdom to gather. This is my first James Baldwin and I crave more!The book consists of two letters, a short one written to a nephew and a longer one written to discuss his thoughts and feelings about race, religion, and life. This is the most beautiful description in the entire book. I cannot possibly think of a more exquisite way to word how James sees his brother and how we often see those we have watched grow up."Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father’s face for behind your father’s face as it is today are all those other faces which were his. Let him laugh and I see a cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember and I hear in his present laughter his laughter as a child."Baldwin starts his letter by informing his nephew on how black people can be destroyed if they believe what some white people think about them. He discusses a hidden message telling black people to settle for mediocrity rather than striving for excellence. Baldwin believes that black people need to know their history and where they came from so that there will be “no limit to where you can go.â€"…We, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it."
I am a huge fan of James Baldwin, this is the third book that I have bought from him. This is by far one of the best books written by him. I am so happy that I chose to buy this book, I do not regret a thing. It truly is astonishing how not much has changed between the races in America since 1963. James Baldwin is such an amazing writer, this book is extremely well written. The use of words in this book are utilized in a way that make you feel as though you are within Baldwin's story. Overall, buy this book if you are interested in learning in the about the history and culture of black individuals during 60s. Also, buy this book if you are interested in reading a quality book with quality writing.
James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time" is more a brilliant, masterfully constructed Supreme Court Opinion than it is a novel. And whereas I truly loved his analysis and opinions of the Negro problem in America, I still prefer his old fashion, novels with the numerous unforgettable characters, boundary breaking storylines, and sublime and poetic writing style.In 2015, my great contemporary literary discovery was Don Delillo; and now in 2017 and 18 my great, contemporary, literary discovery is James Baldwin. Sadly, neither man ever won a Pulitzer prize and unless a miracle happens and they give Mr. DeLillo Nobel Prize neither man would have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Simply too busy giving out the prize to Bob Dylan."The Fire Next Time" might not be for everyone, but it is, in my opinion, just another wonderful addition and indication of how great a writer and thinker Mr. Baldwin truly was... And forever will be remembered as such.
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