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The price of the ticket : collected nonfiction, 1948-1985 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's/Marek, [1985]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors.
African American authors.
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Table of contents
Table of 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.