Notes of a Native son

Locations
Call Number: 305.896 Ba, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Race & Ethnicity / Baldwin, James
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	305.896 Ba	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Race & Ethnicity / Baldwin, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Race & Ethnicity / Baldwin, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Race & Ethnicity / Baldwin, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Race & Ethnicity / Baldwin, James	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Everybody's protest novel -- Many thousands gone -- Carmen Jones: the dark is light enough -- The Harlem ghetto -- Journey to Atlanta -- Notes of a Native Son -- Encounter on the Seine: Black meets Brown -- A question of identity -- Equal in Paris -- Stranger in the village.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Informative submitted by Xris on June 28, 2019, 11:40am Some of the essays were harder to get through than others. I particularly liked the title essay, about his relationship with his father. It discusses how he felt toward his father before and after his death. A lot of the essays had a pessimistic tone, but I liked the last line "This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again".

Bitter Clarity and Uncommon Grace submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on August 15, 2020, 5:57am Baldwin was the definitive outsider — black and gay and an expat — his portrayal of America by some means seems truer. In the title essay, he builds to a scene in a diner in which, furious at being denied service, he realizes that he is willing to commit murder. His examination of race and rage takes as its target, finally, his own heart.