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ISBN-10: 0525434690
ISBN-13: 9780525434696
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 02/07/2017
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.40" W, 0.50" H

I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck

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Overview

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Peck weaves these texts together, brilliantly imagining the book that Baldwin never wrote with selected published and unpublished passages, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been.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.

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"I Am Not Your Negro 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." –Variety

"A searing and topical indictment of racial prejudice and hatred in America that makes for uneasy viewing and is not easily forgotten. . . . Vividly intelligent." –Hollywood Reporter

"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 sympathy–the root causes." –The Guardian

"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." –The New York Times

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ISBN-10: 0525434690
ISBN-13: 9780525434696
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 02/07/2017
Dimensions: 7.90" L, 5.40" W, 0.50" H
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