The price of the ticket : collected nonfiction: 1948-1985
Baldwin, James, 1924-19872021
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Total copies: 1
"An essential compendium of James Baldwin's most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us "to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.""-- An essential compendium of James Baldwin's most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us "to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country."Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the 4 decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing, available for the first time in affordable paperback. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of dozens of famous essays from such books as: Notes of a Native Son Nobody Knows My Name The Fire Next Time No Name in the Street The Devil Finds Work This collection provides the perfect entre into Baldwin's prescient commentary on race, sexuality, and identity in an unjust American society.
Main title:
The price of the ticket : collected nonfiction: 1948-1985 / James Baldwin.
Author:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, author
Imprint:
Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]1985
Collation:
703 pages ; 23 cm
Linking notes:
Online version: Baldwin, James, 1924- Price of the ticket Boston : Beacon Press, 2021
Contents:
CONTENTSIntroduction: The Price of the TicketThe Harlem GhettoLockridge: "The American Myth"Journey to AtlantaEverybody's Protest NovelEncounter on the Seine: Black Meets BrownPrinces and PowersMany Thousands GoneStranger in the VillageA Question of IdentityThe Male PrisonCarmen Jones: The Dark Is Light EnoughEqual in ParisNotes of a Native SonFaulkner and DesegregationThe Crusade of IndignationA Fly in ButtermilkThe Discovery of What It Means to Be an AmericanOn Catfish RowNobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the SouthThe Northern ProtestantFifth Avenue, UptownThey Can't Turn BackIn Search of a MajorityNotes for a Hypothetical NovelThe Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther KingEast River, DowntownAlas, Poor RichardThe Black Boy Looks at the White BoyThe New Lost GenerationThe Creative ProcessColorA Talk to TeachersThe Fire Next Time: My Dungeon ShookNothing PersonalWords of a Native SonThe American Dream and the American NegroWhite Man's GuiltA Report from Occupied TerritoryNegroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-WhiteWhite Racism or World Community?Sweet LorraineNo Name in the StreetA Review of RootsThe Devil Finds WorkAn Open Letter to Mr. CarterEvery Good-Bye Ain't GoneIf Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?An Open Letter to the Born AgainDark DaysNotes on the House of BondageHere Be DragonsFirst Published
ISBN:
9780807006566 ((trade paperback : : acid-free paper))9780807006573 ((ebook))
Dewey class:
814.54
LC class:
PS3552.A45
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
661254