No Name in the Street Historical At the crux of despair

At the crux of despair

" As a child

In Queen Mother

trying on new identities and testing the limits of what they can get away with while still under their parents' roof

No Name in the Street Historical At the crux of despairFrom one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations around racism. "It contains truth that cannot be denied." The Atlantic Monthly In this stunningly personal document, James Baldwin remembers in vivid details the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness and the later events that scored his heart