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050 00 $aE185.615$b.K3747 2007
082 00 $a323.1196/073$222
100 1 $aKenan, Randall.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87852434
245 14 $aThe fire this time /$cRandall Kenan.
260 $aHoboken, N.J. :$bMelville House Pub.,$c2007.
263 $a0709
300 $a149 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time was one of the essential books of the sixties, and one of the most galvanizing statements of the American civil rights movement." "Now, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with a new generation of Americans confronting what Baldwin called our "racial nightmare," acclaimed writer Randall Kenan asks: How far have we come?" "Combining elements of memoir and commentary, Kenan's critical eye ranges from his childhood to the present to observe that, while there have been dramatic advances, some old issues have combined with new ones to bedevil us: "Nigger" has become a hip usage; the African-Americans that have finally attained prominent political positions are, more often than not, arch-conservatives; the Christian and Muslim religions so central to the civil rights movement have become more intolerant, while the stirring spiritual music that inspired it has been replaced by an aggressive form of hip-hop." "Starting with W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr., Kenan expands the discussion to include many of today's most powerful personalities, such as Oprah Winfrey, O. J. Simpson, Clarence Thomas, Rodney King, Sean "Puffy" Combs, George Foreman, and Barack Obama." "Published to mark the forty-fifth anniversary of James Baldwin's epochal work, this homage by novelist, essayist, and Baldwin biographer Kenan is itself a piercing consideration of the times, and an impassioned call to transcend them."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001935
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y1975-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001986
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
650 0 $aRacism$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110339
600 10 $aKenan, Randall.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87852434
600 10 $aKenan, Randall$xChildhood and youth.
650 0 $aAfrican American authors$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100735
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100736
852 00 $bglx$hE185.615$i.K3747 2007