Nobody knows my name : more notes of a native son /

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,

Nobody knows my name : more notes of a native son / More notes of a native son James Baldwin. - First Vintage International edition - xiv, 241 pages ; 21 cm

Originally published: New York : Dial Press, 1961.

Sitting in the house. 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 the buttermilk -- Nobody knows my name: A letter from the South -- Faulkner and desegregation -- In search of a majority. Part one. With everything on my mind. Notes for a hypothetical novel -- The male prison -- The Northern Protestant -- Alas, poor Richard -- The black boy looks at the white boy. Part two.

Provides a collection of Baldwin's essays on topics ranging from race relations in the United States--including an attack on William Faulkner for this ambivalent views about the segregated South--to the role of the writer in society, with personal accounts of such writers as Richard Wright and Norman Mailer. --From publisher description

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African Americans.
African Americans.
Race relations.
FICTION / Literary.


United States--Race relations.
United States.

E185.61 / .B197 1993

305.896/073