foreword, the Santa Monica wanderer
1. a brave mother, and a father who did not love himself
2. the Harlem schoolboy and the Bible
3. in the footsteps of Professor Wright
4. the destruction of idols: from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Native Son
5. black, bastard, gay and a writer
6. between the black American and the African: misunderstanding
7. the years of fire
8. on black anti-Semitism
9. the ghost of Saint-Paul-de-Vence
10. on the need to read or reread you today
afterword, dialogue with Ralph, the invisible man
postscript, James Baldwin the brother, the father
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