" The first part of this book is a "Letter to my Nephew" that inspired TaÂ­Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me.
This book advocates using love to force certain people to "see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it." Its author notes that he didn't become a preacher for religious reasons, but rather to gain power over his father and to not become a drug dealer or pimp like his peers. The first part of this book was written for the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The second and last part of this book attacks both the hypocrisy of white Christians and the separatism of Elijah Muhammad, and is titled "Down At The (*) Cross Â– Letter from a Region of My Mind." The first part of this book is a "Letter to my Nephew" that inspired TaÂ­Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me. For 10 points, name this dissection of the "Negro Problem," a short 1963 James Baldwin book titled for an impending racial catastrophe.
This book advocates using love to force certain people to "see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
The Fire Next Time