Notes of a Native Son Black Studies (Global) "The quality of this book

"The quality of this book is fantastic because it comes of equal parts honesty and logic and humor

having just found out she's going to be sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend

Manuel Rodríguez Cruz

If their father could not be there to take care of them

such as the right to vote

Notes of a Native Son Black Studies (Global) "The quality of this bookNamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by The Guardian and TIME The essays in James Baldwin's first nonfiction collection explore what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's timeless and moving essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad inaugurated him as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting