# I Am Not Your Negro

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- Authors: [James Baldwin](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-baldwin), [Raoul Peck](https://www.bookquiver.com/raoul-peck)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-03-30

## Description

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States - then, and today. 'Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man's confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, " devastated my universe"' The New York Times 'Baldwin's voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence' Variet y 'A cinematic séance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made' Guardian ' I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet' Rolling Stone

## Editions

### I Am Not Your Negro

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-668-5
- Published: 2017-03-30
- Language: en_GB

### I Am Not Your Negro

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-667-8
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2017-03-30
- Language: en_GB

### I Am Not Your Negro

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-05-2543-469-6
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2017-02-07
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [I Am Not Your Negro](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-baldwin/fr/i-am-not-your-negro) (fr_FR)