Notes of a Native Son

ix, 175 pp. "Notes of a Native Son is a non-fiction book by James Baldwin. It was his first non-fiction book, and was published in 1955. The volume collects ten of Baldwin's essays, which had previously appeared in such magazines as Harper's Magazine, Partisan Review, and The New Leader. The essays mostly tackle issues of race in America and Europe.[1]" CONTENTS: Autobiographical Notes; Part I: Everybody's Protest Novel, Many Thousands Gone, Carmen Jones: The Dark is Light Enough; Part II: The Harlem Ghetto, Journey to Atlanta, Notes of a Native Son; Part III: Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown, A Question of Identity, Equal in Paris, Stranger in the Village.