The price of the ticket : collected nonfiction: 1948-1985
- Responsibility
- James Baldwin
- Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2021]
- Copyright notice
- ©1985
- Physical description
- 703 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author.
Contents/Summary
- Contents
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- Introduction : the price of the ticket
- The Harlem ghetto
- Lockridge : "the American myth"
- Journey to Atlanta
- Everbody'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 : a latter from the South
- The northern Protestant
- Fifth Avenue, uptown
- They can't turn back
- In search for 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 : my dungeon shook
- 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 -- First published
- Summary
- "An essential compendium of James Baldwin's most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us "to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.""-- Provided by publisher
Subjects
- Subjects
- American literature > African American authors.
- African American authors.
- African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
- African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
- Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
- United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
- Genre
- Essays.
Bibliographic information
- Reprint/reissue date
- 2021
- Original date
- 1985
- ISBN
- 9780807006566 paperback acid-free paper
- 0807006564 paperback acid-free paper
- 9780807006573 electronic book
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