Introduction : the price of the ticket --
Lockridge : "the American myth" --
Everbody's protest novel --
Encounter on the Seine : Black meets brown --
Stranger in the village --
A question of identity --
Carmen Jones : the dark is light enough --
Faulkner and desegregation --
The crusade of indignation --
The discovery of what it means to be an American --
Nobody knows my name : a latter from the South --
The northern Protestant --
In search for a majority --
Notes for a hypothetical novel --
The dangerous road before Martin Luther King --
The Black boy looks at the white boy --
The new lost generation --
The fire next time : my dungeon shook --
The American dream and the American Negro --
A report from occupied territory --
Negroes are anti-Semitic because they're anti-white --
White racism or world community? --
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 --
Notes on the house of bondage --