{"product_id":"i-am-not-your-negro-isbn-9780525434696","title":"I Am Not Your Negro","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined them to compose his Academy Award-nominated documentary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thrilling…. A portrait of one man’s confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, ‘devastated my universe.’” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeck weaves these texts together, brilliantly imagining the book that Baldwin never wrote with selected published and unpublished passages, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Peck’s film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin’s private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the film.“\u003ci\u003eI Am Not Your Negro\u003c\/i\u003e is a kaleidoscopic journey through the life and mind of James Baldwin, whose voice speaks even more powerfully today than it did 50 years ago. . . . He was the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity. . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence.” —\u003ci\u003eVariet\u003c\/i\u003ey\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A searing and topical indictment of racial prejudice and hatred in America that makes for uneasy viewing and is not easily forgotten. . . . Vividly intelligent.” —\u003ci\u003eHollywood Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A striking work of storytelling. . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made. . . . This might be the only movie about race relations that adequately explains—with \u003ci\u003esympathy\u003c\/i\u003e—the root causes.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thrilling. . . . A portrait of one man’s confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, ‘devastated my universe.’… One of the best movies you are likely to see this year.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003eJAMES BALDWIN (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the \u003c\/i\u003eMountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time \u003c\/i\u003ewere bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement. Baldwin spent many years in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in 1987.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRAOUL PECK is a filmmaker acclaimed for his historical, political, and artistic work. Haitian-born, he grew up in Congo, France, Germany, and the United States. His body of work includes the films \u003ci\u003eThe Man by the Shore\u003c\/i\u003e (Competition, Cannes 1993); \u003ci\u003eLumumba\u003c\/i\u003e (Cannes 2000, HBO); and \u003ci\u003eSometimes in April\u003c\/i\u003e (2005, HBO). He is currently chairman of the French national film school, La Fémis, and recently completed his next feature film, \u003ci\u003eThe Young Karl Marx\u003c\/i\u003e (2017).As concerns Malcolm and Martin,\u003cbr\u003eI watched two men, coming from unimaginably different backgrounds,\u003cbr\u003ewhose positions, originally, were poles apart,\u003cbr\u003edriven closer and closer together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy the time each died, their positions had become virtually the same position.\u003cbr\u003eIt can be said, indeed, that Martin picked up Malcolm’s burden,\u003cbr\u003earticulated the vision which Malcolm had begun to see,\u003cbr\u003eand for which he paid with his life.\u003cbr\u003eAnd that Malcolm was one of the people Martin saw on the mountaintop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedgar was too young to have seen this happen,though he hoped for it, and would not have been surprised;\u003cbr\u003ebut Medgar was murdered first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was older than Medgar, Malcolm, and Martin.\u003cbr\u003eI was raised to believe that the eldest was supposed to be a model for the younger,\u003cbr\u003eand was, of course, expected to die first.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot one of these three lived to be forty.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300291006693,"sku":"NP9780525434696","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780525434696.jpg?v=1767729590","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/i-am-not-your-negro-isbn-9780525434696","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}