Next Time, Fire by James Baldwin

Despite the psychological and social upheavals it requires, this book only wants to propose a common-sense solution to the problem of the place of blacks in American society. Despite the sometimes threatening tone, despite the often biting satire, Next Time, Fire is above all a call for moderation, a final attempt at compromise (in 1963) between extremists on both sides blinded by passion.

Both by the topicality of the phenomena of which it presents the irrefutable analysis and by the mixture of contained pain and scathing irony which gives it this very particular tone, this testimony will not fail to attract the attention of the reader who will retain its literary qualities as much as its political importance.