Amid Nationwide Protests, James Baldwin's Words Continue to Offer Guidance

Published in 1955, Notes of a Native Son is a collection of 10 essays on race, discrimination, and segregation. In the first part, Baldwin dedicates time to critiquing prior lauded works like Native Son and Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the collection also includes essays on Baldwin's experience living in Paris in his early 20s and the ways in which it did — and did not — differ from life in the States.