The Evidence of Things Not Seen
James Baldwin
Holt Paperbacks (1995)
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True Crime
True Crime, Race Relations, Atlanta, Georgia
Paperback 9780805039399
English
This edition of a classic work by one of America's premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter's skill and an essayist's insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killings-a city that claimed to be "too busy to hate"-and the permeation of race throughout the case: the black administration in Atlanta; the murdered black children; and Wayne Williams, the black man tried for the crimes. Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about "justice for all." Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: The Evidence of Things Not Seen offers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.
Product Details
LoC Classification HV6534.A7 .B35 1995
LoC Control Number 94049040
Dewey 364.15230975823
Edition Reissued Edition
Cover Price $14.00
No. of Pages 144
Height x Width 8.3 x 5.5  inch
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