Here be dragons -- First published. 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.
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