FIRST PUBLISHED

THE HARLEM GHETTO Originally published in Commentary, February 1948.

LOCKRIDGE: “THE AMERICAN MYTH” Originally published in The New Leader, April 10, 1948.

JOURNEY TO ATLANTA Originally published in The New Leader, October 9, 1948.

EVERYBODY’S PROTEST NOVEL Originally published in Partisan Review, June 1949.

ENCOUNTER ON THE SEINE: BLACK MEETS BROWN Originally published in The Reporter, June 6, 1950 as “The Negro in Paris.”

PRINCES AND POWERS Originally published in Encounter, January 1951.

MANY THOUSANDS GONE Originally published in Partisan Review, November/December 1951.

STRANGER IN THE VILLAGE Originally published in Harper’s Magazine, October 1953.

A QUESTION OF IDENTITY Originally published in Partisan Review, July/August 1954.

THE MALE PRISON Originally published in The New Leader, December 13, 1954, as “Gide as Husband and Homosexual.”

CARMEN JONES: THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH Originally published in Commentary, January 1955, as “Life Straight in De Eye.”

EQUAL IN PARIS Originally published in Commentary, March 1955.

NOTES OF A NATIVE SON Originally published in Harper’s Magazine, November 1955.

FAULKNER AND DESEGREGATION Originally published in Partisan Review, Winter 1956.

THE CRUSADE OF INDIGNATION Originally published in The Nation, July 7, 1956.

A FLY IN BUTTERMILK Originally published in Harper’s Magazine, October 1958, as “The Hard Kind of Courage.”

THE DISCOVERY OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN Originally published in The New York Times Book Review, January 25, 1959.

ON CATFISH ROW Originally published in Commentary, September 1956.

NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME: A LETTER FROM THE SOUTH Originally published in Partisan Review, Winter 1959.

THE NORTHERN PROTESTANT Originally published in Esquire, April 1960, as “The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman.”

FIFTH AVENUE, UPTOWN Originally published in Esquire, July 1960.

THEY CAN’T TURN BACK Originally published in Mademoiselle, August 1960.

IN SEARCH OF A MAJORITY Address at Kalamazoo College, 1960.

NOTES FOR A HYPOTHETICAL NOVEL Address at Esquire symposium, “Role of the Writer in America,” at San Francisco State College, October 22, 1960.

THE DANGEROUS ROAD BEFORE MARTIN LUTHER KING Originally published in Harper’s Magazine, February 1961.

EAST RIVER, DOWNTOWN Originally published in The New York Times Magazine, March 12, 1961, as “A Negro Assays the Negro Mood.”

ALAS, POOR RICHARD Originally published in Reporter, March 16, 1961.

THE BLACK BOY LOOKS AT THE WHITE BOY Originally published in Esquire, May 1961.

THE NEW LOST GENERATION Originally published in Esquire, July 1961.

THE CREATIVE PROCESS Excerpted from Creative America, Ridge Press, 1962.

COLOR Originally published in Esquire, December 1962.

A TALK TO TEACHERS Delivered October 16, 1963, as “The Negro Child—His Self-Image”; originally published in The Saturday Review, December 21, 1963.

THE FIRE NEXT TIME

MY DUNGEON SHOOK Originally published in The Progressive as “A Letter to My Nephew,” December 1962.

DOWN AT THE CROSS Originally published in The New Yorker as “Let ter from a Region in My Mind,” November 17, 1962.

NOTHING PERSONAL Originally published in Nothing Personal, with photos by Richard Avedon, 1964.

WORDS OF A NATIVE SON Originally published in Playboy, December 1964.

THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE AMERICAN NEGRO Address at the Cambridge Union Society of Cambridge University, February 1965. Originally published in The New York Times Magazine, March 7, 1965.

WHITE MAN’S GUILT Originally published in Ebony, August 1965.

A REPORT FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORY Originally published in The Nation, July 11, 1966.

NEGROES ARE ANTI-SEMITIC BECAUSE THEY’RE ANTI-WHITE Originally published in The New York Times Magazine, April 9, 1967.

WHITE RACISM OR WORLD COMMUNITY? Originally published in Ecumenical Review, October 1968.

SWEET LORRAINE Originally published in Esquire, November 1969.

NO NAME IN THE STREET Originally published by The Dial Press, 1972.

A REVIEW OF ROOTS Originally published in The New York Times, September 26, 1976.

THE DEVIL FINDS WORK Originally published by The Dial Press, 1976.

AN OPEN LETTER TO MR. CARTER Originally published in The New York Times, January 23, 1977.

EVERY GOOD-BYE AIN’T GONE Originally published in New York magazine, December 19, 1977.

IF BLACK ENGLISH ISN’T A LANGUAGE, THEN TELL ME, WHAT IS? Originally published in The New York Times, July 29, 1979.

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE BORN AGAIN Originally published in The Nation, September 29, 1979.

DARK DAYS Originally published in Esquire, October 1980.

NOTES ON THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE Originally published in The Nation, November 1980.

HERE BE DRAGONS Originally published as “Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood” in Playboy, January 1985.