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Title: best to have read it when it came out but still worthwhile
Review: I read this in the fall of 1969 and was struck then by the essay dedicated to James Baldwin and sexual orientation, particularly by the term "ghost" in reference to male homosexuals. Cleaver's comments are acute and, in a certain sense, prescient and prophetic. This work is about much more than black frustration and rage (remember the violent riots of the 60's) and for Americans who are interested in the past, in order to comprehend better the present and anticipate the future, this is good reading, much better than the bestseller pulp out there.
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