CONTENTS Introduction: The Price of the Ticket ix The Harlem Ghetto 1 Lockridge: The American Myth" 13 Journey to Atlanta 19 Everybody's Protest Novel 27 Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown 35 Princes and Powers 41 Many Thousands Gone 65 Stranger in the Village 79 A Question of Identity 91 The Male Prison 101 Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough 107 Equal in Paris 113 Notes of a Native Son 127 Faulkner and Desegregation 147 The Crusade of Indignation 153 A Fly in Buttermilk 161 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American 171 On Catfish Row 177 Nobody Knows My Name 183 The Northern Protestant 195 Fifth Avenue, Uptown 205 They Can't Turn Back 215 In Search of a Majority 229 Notes for a Hypothetical Novel 237 The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King 245 East River, Downtown 263 Alas, Poor Richard 269 The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy 289 The New Lost Generation 305 The Creative Process 315 Color 319 A Talk to Teachers 325 The Fire Next Time 333 Nothing Personal 381 Words of a Native Son 395 The American Dream and the American Negro 403 White Man's Guilt 409 A Report from Occupied Territory 415 Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White 425 White Racism or World Community? 435 Sweet Lorraine 443 No Name in the Street 449 A Review of Roots 553 The Devil Finds Work 557 An Open Letter to Mr. Carter 637 Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone 641 If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? 649 An Open Letter to the Born Again 653 Dark Days 657 Notes on the House of Bondage 667 Here Be Dragons 677.