The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
A collection of the New Yorkerâs groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more
From the pages of the New Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, with astonishing early work from Rebecca Westâs account of a lynching trial and James Baldwinâs âLetter from a Region in My Mindâ (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. FĂ©lix, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kelefa Sanneh, and more.
Reaching back across the last century, The Matter of Black Lives includes a wide array of material from the New Yorker archives ranging across essays, reported pieces, profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. This book addresses everything from the arts to civil rights, matters of justice, and politics, and brings us up to the present day with accounts of what Jelani Cobb calls âThe American Spring.â The result is a startling, nuanced and, ultimately, indelible portrait of Americaâs complex relationship with race.
A collection of the New Yorkerâs groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more
From the pages of the New Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, with astonishing early work from Rebecca Westâs account of a lynching trial and James Baldwinâs âLetter from a Region in My Mindâ (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. FĂ©lix, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kelefa Sanneh, and more.
Reaching back across the last century, The Matter of Black Lives includes a wide array of material from the New Yorker archives ranging across essays, reported pieces, profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. This book addresses everything from the arts to civil rights, matters of justice, and politics, and brings us up to the present day with accounts of what Jelani Cobb calls âThe American Spring.â The result is a startling, nuanced and, ultimately, indelible portrait of Americaâs complex relationship with race.
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A collection of the New Yorkerâs groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more
From the pages of the New Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, with astonishing early work from Rebecca Westâs account of a lynching trial and James Baldwinâs âLetter from a Region in My Mindâ (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. FĂ©lix, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kelefa Sanneh, and more.
Reaching back across the last century, The Matter of Black Lives includes a wide array of material from the New Yorker archives ranging across essays, reported pieces, profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. This book addresses everything from the arts to civil rights, matters of justice, and politics, and brings us up to the present day with accounts of what Jelani Cobb calls âThe American Spring.â The result is a startling, nuanced and, ultimately, indelible portrait of Americaâs complex relationship with race.
