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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Subject:

American literature > African American authors.
African American authors.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
Racism.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.

Genre:

Essays.