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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.
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Race relations, Case studies, Racism, Serial murders, Mass murder, Kriminalfall, Rassendiscriminatie, Ethnische Beziehungen, Massenmord, Kind, Atlanta (ga.), Georgia, race relations, African american criminals, African americans, politics and government, United states, race relations, African americans, civil rights, African americans, suffrage, American fiction (fictional works by one author), African Americans, Homicide, Race RelationsTimes
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The evidence of things not seen
1995, H. Holt
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The evidence of things not seen
1985, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Evidence of Things
November 1985, Henry Holt & Company
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Originally published, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.
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