I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro
(Vintage International)
Paperback – Illustrated, February 7, 2017
by James Baldwin (Author), Raoul Peck (Author)
NATIONAL 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.
“Thrilling…. A portrait of one man’s confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, ‘devastated my universe.’” --The New York Times
Peck weaves these texts together, brilliantly imagining the book that Baldwin never wrote with selected published and unpublished passages, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been.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.
This edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the film.
Publisher: Vintage; Media tie-in edition (February 7, 2017)
Language: English
Paperback: 144 pages
ISBN-10: 0525434690
ISBN-13: 978-0525434696
Lexile Measure: 1000L
Item Weight: 2.31 pounds
Dimensions: 5.18 x 0.42 x 7.99 inches
