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Product Identifiers
PublisherHolt & Company, Henry
ISBN-100030055296
ISBN-139780030055294
eBay Product ID (ePID)1336052
Product Key Features
Book TitleEvidence of Things Not Seen
Publication Year1985
TopicCivil Rights, African American
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorJames Baldwin
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight352.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN85-000924
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal364.1/523/09758231
SynopsisThis edition of a classic work by one of America's premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter's skill and an essayist's insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killings--a city that claimed to be "too busy to hate"--and the permeation of race throughout the case: the black administration in Atlanta; the murdered black children; and Wayne Williams, the black man tried for the crimes. Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about "justice for all." Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: The Evidence of Things Not Seen offers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.
LC Classification NumberHV6534.A7B35 1985
