![]() ![]() ![]() With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many Black expatriates of the time, from his home in "The Harlem Ghetto" to a sobering "Journey to Atlanta." Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being Black in America. Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his 20s, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of Black life and Black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. ![]() ![]() At last, a new audio edition of the book many have called James Baldwin's most influential work!
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