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.
List of essays Introduction: The Price of the Ticket The Harlem Ghetto Lockridge: "The American Myth" Journey to Atlanta Everybody's Protest Novel Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown Princes and Powers Many Thousands Gone Stranger in the Village A Question of Identity The Male Prison Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough Equal in Paris Notes of a Native Son Faulkner and Desegregation The Crusade of Indignation A Fly in Buttermilk The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American On Catfish Row Nobody Knows My Name The Northern Protestant Fifth Avenue, Uptown They Can't Turn Back In Search of a Majority Notes for a Hypothetical Novel The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King East River, Downtown Alas, Poor Richard The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy The New Lost Generation The Creative Process Color A Talk to Teachers The Fire Next Time Nothing Personal Words of a Native Son The American Dream and the American Negro White Man's Guilt A Report from Occupied Territory Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White White Racism or World Community? Sweet Lorraine No Name in the Street A Review Of Roots The Devil Finds Work An Open Letter to Mr. Carter Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? An Open Letter to the Born Again Dark Days Notes on the House of Bondage Here Be Dragons
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External links Excerpts at Google Books
Caryl Phillips, "The price of the ticket", The Guardian, 14 July 2007.