Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son

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Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son is a 1961 collection of essays by James Baldwin that explores race, identity, and American society during the civil rights era.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf essay collection
non-fiction book
author James Baldwin
countryOfOrigin United States
follows Notes of a Native Son
genre African-American literature
essay
social criticism
hasInfluenceOn discourse on race in American literature
hasPart “A Fly in Buttermilk” (essay)
linked to: A Fly in Buttermilk

“A Letter from the South” (essay)
“A Question of Identity” (essay)
“Alas, Poor Richard” (essay)
“Faulkner and Desegregation” (essay)
“Fifth Avenue, Uptown” (essay)
“In Search of a Majority” (essay)
“Nobody Knows My Name” (essay)
“Notes for a Hypothetical Novel” (essay)
“Princes and Powers” (essay)
“The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy” (essay)
“The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American” (essay)
“The Male Prison” (essay)
“The Northern Protestant” (essay)
hasPerspective first-person
language English
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement African-American literature movement
civil rights era literature
mainTheme African-American identity
American society
civil rights movement
exile and belonging
race in the United States
race relations
medium print
notableFor essays on civil rights era tensions
exploration of race and identity in America
periodCovered 1950s
early 1960s
publicationYear 1961
relatedWork Notes of a Native Son
The Fire Next Time
setting France
Switzerland
United States
subjectOf literary criticism

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Nobody Knows My Name title Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
Princes and Powers includedIn Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son hasPart “Nobody Knows My Name” (essay)
linked to: Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son hasPart “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy” (essay)
linked to: Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son