New Arrival I Am Not Your Negro

Author: Baldwin, James, Peck, Raoul

USA

Published on 30 March 2017 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Penguin Modern Classics’ series.

Paperback / softback | 144 pages
130 x 198 x 11 | 136g

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States – then, and today. ‘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’Baldwin’s voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence’ Variety ‘A cinematic sance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made’ Guardian ‘I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet’ Rolling Stone