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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Baldwin |
| ISBN: | 0312643063 9780312643065 0312643071 9780312643072 |
| OCLC Number: | 12107577 |
| Description: | xx, 690 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction : The price of the ticket -- The Harlem ghetto -- Lockridge : "The American myth" -- Journey to Atlanta -- Everybody's protest novel -- Encounter on the Seine : black meets brown -- Princes and powers -- Many thousands gone -- Stranger in the village -- A question of identity -- The male prison -- Carmen Jones : the dark is light enough -- Equal in Paris -- Notes of a native son -- Faulkner and desegregation -- The crusade of indignation -- A fly in buttermilk -- The discovery of what it means to be an American -- On Catfish Row -- Nobody knows my name -- The northern Protestant -- Fifth Avenue, uptown -- They can't turn back -- In search of a majority -- Notes for a hypothetical novel -- The dangerous road before Martin Luther King -- East River, downtown. Alas, poor Richard -- The black boy looks at the white boy -- The new lost generation -- The creative process -- Color -- A talk to teachers -- The fire next time -- Nothing personal -- Words of a native son -- The American dream and the American Negro -- White man's guilt -- A report from occupied territory -- Negroes are anti-semitic because they're anti-white -- White racism or world community? -- Sweet Lorraine -- No name in the street -- A review of Roots -- The devil finds work -- An open letter to Mr. Carter -- Every good-bye ain't gone -- If Black English isn't a language, then tell me, what is? -- An open letter to the born again -- Dark days -- Notes on the house of bondage -- Here be dragons. |
| Responsibility: | James Baldwin. |
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Abstract:
Complete collection of major nonfiction writings by author James Baldwin, composed between 1948 and 1985, providing his perceptions of the twentieth century black American experience.
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