Baldwins Harlem, Herb Boyd
Baldwins Harlem, Herb Boyd
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Baldwin's Harlem
A Biography of James Baldwin

Author: Herb Boyd

Narrator: Peter Jay Fernandez

Unabridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/20/2008

Synopsis

Award-winning journalist Herb Boyd, author of Sugar Ray Robinson's biography Pound for Pound, combines impeccable research with astute literary criticism in Baldwin's Harlem. Packed with telling anecdotes, this concise volume illuminates Baldwin's diverse views and his impressions of the community that would remain a consistent presence in virtually all his writing.

About Herb Boyd

Herb Boyd is a journalist, activist, teacher, and author or editor of twenty-three books, including his latest, The Diary of Malcolm X, edited with Ilyasah Al-Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter. His articles have been published in the Black Scholar, Final Call, the Amsterdam News, Cineaste, Downbeat, the Network Journal, and the Daily Beast. A scholar for more than forty years, he teaches African American history and culture at the City College of New York in Harlem, where he lives.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alicia (PrettyBrownEyeReader)

This book is full of information, testimonies, quotes and resources to understand depression in Black people. It can be overwhelming. It is best to read a chapter at a time and reflect on it.......more

Goodreads review by Shanene

This is a powerful, life-changing book! Black Pain blew me away! No book has ever explained depression so well before. It is so thorough you really have to absorb and reflect on everything you learn from this book. I thought I knew people, but I realize I don’t know the half. You just never know wha......more

Goodreads review by Banole

Herb Boyd gives us a gossipy biography of Baldwin that somehow works. Boyd is sure to deeply confuse, offend and anger those who take into consideration "the white gaze" -as Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison so delicately puts it. Boyd seems to unconsciously ignore the"white gaze". Boyd admits that he rea......more

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