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Now showing — Native Son · 5 works

  • Certain Women Film · 2010s

    Certain Women is a 2016 American drama film edited, written, and directed by Kelly Reichardt. Based on "Native Sandstone", "Travis, B." and "Tome"—three short stories from Maile Meloy's collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It—it stars Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Glad...

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  • There There Books · 2010s

    "Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all c...

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  • Notes of a Native Son Essays · 1950s

    Essays on race, identity, and America. Baldwin at his most incisive and personal.

    IdentityPowerModernity
  • Native Son Books · 1940s

    A young Black man in 1930s Chicago. Systemic racism and the violence it produces.

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • 2019 film directed by Rashid Johnson

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