The Price of the Ticket

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

 * 1) Introduction: The Price of the Ticket
 * 2) The Harlem Ghetto
 * 3) Lockridge: "The American Myth"
 * 4) Journey to Atlanta
 * 5) Everybody's Protest Novel
 * 6) Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown
 * 7) Princes and Powers
 * 8) Many Thousands Gone
 * 9) Stranger in the Village
 * 10) A Question of Identity
 * 11) The Male Prison
 * 12) Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough
 * 13) Equal in Paris
 * 14) Notes of a Native Son
 * 15) Faulkner and Desegregation
 * 16) The Crusade of Indignation
 * 17) A Fly in Buttermilk
 * 18) The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
 * 19) On Catfish Row
 * 20) Nobody Knows My Name
 * 21) The Northern Protestant
 * 22) Fifth Avenue, Uptown
 * 23) They Can't Turn Back
 * 24) In Search of a Majority
 * 25) Notes for a Hypothetical Novel
 * 26) The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King
 * 27) East River, Downtown
 * 28) Alas, Poor Richard
 * 29) The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy
 * 30) The New Lost Generation
 * 31) The Creative Process
 * 32) Color
 * 33) A Talk to Teachers
 * 34) The Fire Next Time
 * 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
 * 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