Notes of a native son -- ( Autobiographical notes -- Everybody's protest novel -- Many thousands gone -- Carmen Jones: the dark Is light enough -- The Harlem ghetto -- Journey to Atlanta -- Notes of a native son -- Encounter on the Seine: black meets brown -- A question of identity -- Equal in Paris -- Stranger in the village) -- Nobody knows my name -- ( The discovery of what it means to be an American -- Princes and powers -- Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem -- East River, Downtown: postscript to a letter from Harlem -- A fly in buttermilk -- Nobody knows my name: a letter from the South -- Faulkner and desegregation -- In search of a majority -- Notes for a hypothetical novel -- The male prison -- The Northern Protestant -- Alas, poor Richard -- The black boy looks at the white boy) -- The fire next time -- ( My dungeon shook: letter to my nephew -- Down at the cross) -- No name in the street -- The devil finds work --
Other essays -- ( Smaller than life -- History as nightmare -- The image of the negro -- Lockridge: 'the American myth' -- Preservation of innocence -- The negro at home and abroad -- The crusade of indignation -- Sermons and blues -- On Catfish Row -- They can't turn back -- The dangerous road before Martin Luther King -- The new lost generation -- The creative process -- Color -- A talk to teachers -- "This nettle, danger ..." -- Nothing personal -- Words of a native son -- The American dream and the American negro -- On the painter Beauford Delaney -- The 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 -- How one black man came to be an American -- An open letter to Mr. Carter -- Last of the great masters -- Every good-bye ain't gone -- If Black English isn't a language, then tell me, what is? -- Open letter to the born again -- Dark days -- Notes on the house of bondage -- Introduction to notes of a native son, 1984 -- Freaks and the American ideal of manhood -- The price of the ticket).
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