This is a story about Baldwin being in a Swiss village and feeling incredibly isolated. He feels alienated for being black because he feels as though he is very different from everyone else around him for his skin color. They did make racial comments about his skin color and treated him as exotic.

This is a collection of essays about Baldwin's typical themes such as desegregation, French intellectual life, literary criticism, homosexuality, and life in the US South.

This is an interview with James Baldwin from Esquire magazine in 1968 shortly after Martin Luther King was assassinated about race relations in America. At times he is concise and at other times he talks in his typical literary intellectual manner.

This is a letter from Baldwin to his namesake nephew James and Baldwin describes the horrific state of the black community and how the black community can overcome that through loving and accepting white people.

This is about a religious crisis that Baldwin went through when he was fourteen because of sexual thoughts he was having and from the crime and prostitution he saw in his neighborhood. He comments on how black people used alcohol, drugs, or religion to cope with the harsh realities of a society that didn't respect them. He explains many phenoms that deal with race and sexuality in his letter.

This essay is about how teachers should dispel the myths regarding US history and teach the realities about what has happened to African-Americans in classrooms. This comes from his belief that education is about examining the society in which the boy or the girl inhabits.