The price of the ticket : collected nonfiction 1948-1985 / James Baldwin.
A comprehensive collection of James Baldwin's powerful nonfiction work. Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist Amerciian society with insights as fresh today as they were of the five decades in which he composed them. Edited by Baldwin himself and published now for the first time in paperback, this volume includes the full text of all of Baldwin's major nonfictin works, including all the essays in Notes Of A Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name, as well as from The Fire Next Time, No Name In The Street, The Devil Finds Work, and dozens of other key works.
An essential compendium of James Baldwin's most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us "to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country."
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807006566
- ISBN: 0807006564
- Physical Description: 703 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©1985
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Contains essays, articles, and addresses.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction : the price of the ticket -- 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 -- Male prison -- Carmen Jones : the dark is light enough -- Equal in Paris -- Notes of a native son -- Faulkner and desegregation -- Crusade of indignation -- A fly in buttermilk -- Discovery of what it means to be an American -- On Catfish Row -- Nobody knows my name : a latter from the South -- Northern Protestant -- Fifth Avenue, uptown -- They can't turn back -- In search for a majority -- Notes for a hypothetical novel -- Dangerous road before Martin Luther King -- East River, downtown -- Alas, poor Richard -- Black boy looks at the white boy -- New lost generation -- Creative process -- Color -- A talk to teachers -- Fire next time : my dungeon shook -- Nothing personal -- Words of a native son -- 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 -- 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.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 814.54 BAL (Text) | 36015000416673 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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