- A Rap on Race
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name = A Rap on Race
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author = James Baldwin,Margaret Mead
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country =United States
language = English
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pages = 1971
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followed_by ="A Rap on Race" is a
non-fiction book co-authored by James Baldwin andMargaret Mead . It consists of a conversation on a tape recorder, transcribed into a book.ummary introduction
The transcript mentions '
New Guinea ,South Africa ,Women's Lib , the South, slavery,Christianity , their early childhood upbringings,Israel , the Arabs, the bomb,Paris ,Istanbul , theEnglish language ,Huey Newton ,John Wayne , theblack bourgeoisie , Baldwin's 2-year-old grand nephew and Professor Mead's daughter.'New York Times , "A Rap on Race" by Richard Elman, June 27, 1971 [http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-race.html] ]Literary significance and criticism
The book has been dismissed as 'baloney', under the assumption that it was solely published because the two talkers were famous.
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