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Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written.
"He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity."--Langston Hughes, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace." --"Time"
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| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Preface to the 1984 Edition | p. ix |
| Autobiographical Notes | p. 3 |
| Everybody's Protest Novel | p. 13 |
| Many Thousands Gone | p. 24 |
| Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough | p. 46 |
| The Harlem Ghetto | p. 57 |
| Journey to Atlanta | p. 73 |
| Notes of a Native Son | p. 85 |
| Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown | p. 117 |
| A Question of Identity | p. 124 |
| Equal in Paris | p. 138 |
| Stranger in the Village | p. 159 |
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ISBN: 9780807064313
ISBN-10: 0807064319
Series: Beacon Paperback,
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 216
Published: 9th July 1984
Publisher: Beacon Press
Dimensions (cm): 21.5 x 14.0
x 1.5
Weight (kg): 0.227
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