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[a]
  3. Lockridge: "The American Myth"
  4. Journey to Atlanta[a]
  5. Everybody's Protest Novel[a]
  6. Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown[a]
  7. Princes and Powers[b]
  8. Many Thousands Gone[a]
  9. Stranger in the Village[a]
  10. A Question of Identity[a]
  11. The Male Prison[b]
  12. Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough[a]
  13. Equal in Paris[a]
  14. Notes of a Native Son[a]
  15. Faulkner and Desegregation[b]
  16. The Crusade of Indignation
  17. A Fly in Buttermilk[b]
  18. The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American[b]
  19. On Catfish Row
  20. Nobody Knows My Name[b]
  21. The Northern Protestant[b]
  22. Fifth Avenue, Uptown[b]
  23. They Can't Turn Back
  24. In Search of a Majority[b]
  25. Notes for a Hypothetical Novel[b]
  26. The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King
  27. East River, Downtown[b]
  28. Alas, Poor Richard[b]
  29. The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy[b]
  30. The New Lost Generation
  31. The Creative Process
  32. Color
  33. A Talk to Teachers
  34. The Fire Next Time[c]
  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[c]
  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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Originally in Notes from a Native Son
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Originally in Nobody Knows My Name
  3. ^ a b Originally published as a book-length essay

References

  1. ^ JamesBaldwinProject.org
  2. ^ PBS: American Masters

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