The Price of the Ticket
First edition
AuthorJames Baldwin
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreEssays
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
Publication date
1985
Pages704
ISBN0-312-64306-3

The Price of the Ticket is a collection of James Baldwin's writing that was published in 1985. It is a collection of essays spanning the years from 1948 to 1985. These are Baldwin's commentaries on race in America.

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket is a 1989 biographical film by director Karen Thorsen.[1][2]

List of essays

  1. Introduction: The Price of the Ticket
  2. The Harlem Ghetto[lower-alpha 1]
  3. Lockridge: "The American Myth"
  4. Journey to Atlanta[lower-alpha 1]
  5. Everybody's Protest Novel[lower-alpha 1]
  6. Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown[lower-alpha 1]
  7. Princes and Powers[lower-alpha 2]
  8. Many Thousands Gone[lower-alpha 1]
  9. Stranger in the Village[lower-alpha 1]
  10. A Question of Identity[lower-alpha 1]
  11. The Male Prison[lower-alpha 2]
  12. Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough[lower-alpha 1]
  13. Equal in Paris[lower-alpha 1]
  14. Notes of a Native Son[lower-alpha 1]
  15. Faulkner and Desegregation[lower-alpha 2]
  16. The Crusade of Indignation
  17. A Fly in Buttermilk[lower-alpha 2]
  18. The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American[lower-alpha 2]
  19. On Catfish Row
  20. Nobody Knows My Name[lower-alpha 2]
  21. The Northern Protestant[lower-alpha 2]
  22. Fifth Avenue, Uptown[lower-alpha 2]
  23. They Can't Turn Back
  24. In Search of a Majority[lower-alpha 2]
  25. Notes for a Hypothetical Novel[lower-alpha 2]
  26. The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King
  27. East River, Downtown[lower-alpha 2]
  28. Alas, Poor Richard[lower-alpha 2]
  29. The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy[lower-alpha 2]
  30. The New Lost Generation
  31. The Creative Process
  32. Color
  33. A Talk to Teachers
  34. The Fire Next Time[lower-alpha 3]
  35. Nothing Personal
  36. Words of a Native Son
  37. The American Dream and the American Negro
  38. White Man's Guilt
  39. A Report from Occupied Territory
  40. Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White
  41. White Racism or World Community?
  42. Sweet Lorraine
  43. No Name in the Street[lower-alpha 3]
  44. A Review Of Roots
  45. The Devil Finds Work
  46. An Open Letter to Mr. Carter
  47. Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
  48. If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
  49. An Open Letter to the Born Again
  50. Dark Days
  51. Notes on the House of Bondage
  52. Here Be Dragons

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Originally in Notes from a Native Son
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Originally in Nobody Knows My Name
  3. 1 2 Originally published as a book-length essay

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