The Evidence of Things Not Seen

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by James Baldwin

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0030055296

ISBN13:9780030055294

Release Date:January 1985

Publisher:Holt McDougal

Length:125 Pages

Weight:0.68 lbs.

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Discrimination & Racism History Minority Studies Murder & Mayhem Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations Serial Killers Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics State & Local True Accounts True Crime

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