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  • Nobody Knows My Name

  • More Notes of a Native Son
  • By: James Baldwin
  • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
  • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (148 ratings)

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Nobody Knows My Name

By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
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James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name records the last months of this famed American writer's 10-year self-exile in Europe, his return to America and to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles. It contains Baldwin's controversial and intimate profiles of Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Ingmar Bergman. And it explores such varied themes as the relations between blacks and whites, the role of blacks in America and in Europe, and the question of sexual identity.

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Nobody Knows My Name

I enjoyed this reading !! The book was gripping. And this reading is also as compelling. Loved it!!

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Absolutely Timeless

Baldwin loved America so much that he eloquently took her to task. Fiercely. Honestly. Compassionately.

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More Notes of a Native Son

Baldwin at his best, beautifully read. James Baldwin’s essays are essential reading for any critically conscious American reader. These readings are clear, engaging, and a pleasure to listen to.

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amazing ! all around story telling, and humor is

humourous throughout, but his story telling keeps you engaged, remarkable work, puts me in awe, I'm ready for the next work

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Reflection and Destruction of Whiteness

Baldwin reflects on the destruction cause by the history of slavery and how it permeated the cultures throughout the world. He note the various transitions and transgressions nations have endured to perpetuate the myth of black inferiority. He notes the mental, and physical harm that coincides with false ideologies and how it contaminates the victims and the perpetrators. Baldwin is talking about the beginning of the Great Migration to the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. What is hunting is so much of what he is talking about is still prevalent today.

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enlightening

this is my second time and more knowledge was gain as adult, compared to when I read it as a teen.

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Cogent and interesting

To say that this is well read, is kind of beside the point. These insights from James Baldwin are often as applicable now as they were when he wrote them. I continue to be glad to dig into Baldwin‘s works.

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Excellent on all counts!

I am writing my doctoral thesis on James Baldwin. Having these essays on audible.com is truly a beautiful gift! Baldwin is needed now more than ever!

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greatly entertaining and smart!!

Mr. Baldwin did not dissapoint in the biography, I find it greatly entertaining, well organizied, smart and done it with great taste. This audio book will not dissapoint in the slighter because even though it was written in the 1950s the subject matter still relevant today. It open a window to the life of black americans view from inside out and backward

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excellent book

this book was easy to follow loved every minute of it. Kept me in a trance.

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