The Price of the Ticket

For the album by Wendy James, see The Price of the Ticket (album).
The Price of the Ticket
First edition
AuthorJames Baldwin
LanguageEnglish
GenreEssays
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
Publication date
1985
Publication placeUnited States
Pages704
ISBN0-312-64306-3

The Price of the Ticket is an anthology collecting nonfiction essays by James Baldwin. Spanning the years 1948 to 1985, the essays offer Baldwin's reflections on race in America.

The title was repurposed for the 1989 documentary film James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, directed by 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 published in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Originally published in Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
  3. ^ a b Originally published as a book-length essay

References

  1. ^ "Filmmaker Interview: Karen Thorsen". American Masters. 2006-11-29. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  2. ^ "The Filmmakers: Karen Thorsen". James Baldwin Project. Retrieved 2024-03-07.


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