Nobody Knows My Name

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Nobody Knows My Name is a 1961 collection of essays by James Baldwin that explores race, identity, and the African American experience in mid-20th-century America.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf essay collection
non-fiction book
author James Baldwin
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
follows Notes of a Native Son
genre essays
hasEssay A Fly in Buttermilk
A Letter from the South
Faulkner and Desegregation
Fifth Avenue
surface form: Fifth Avenue, Uptown

In Search of a Majority
Nobody Knows My Name self-link
Notes for a Hypothetical Novel
Princes and Powers
The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King
The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
The Big House
surface form: The Male Prison

The New Lost Generation
The Northern Protestant
The Price of the Ticket
hasForm book
hasInfluenced African-American essay writing
discourse on race in the United States
language English
literaryMovement African American literature
surface form: African-American literature
mainTheme African American experience
identity
race
medium print
notableFor exploration of race relations in America
personal and political essays
publicationYear 1961
publisher Dial Press
settingPeriod mid-20th century
subjectMatter American society
American civil rights movement
surface form: civil rights movement

exile and belonging
literature and politics
segregation in the United States
timeOfPublicationContext early civil rights era
title Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son

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James Baldwin notableWork Nobody Knows My Name
Nobody Knows My Name hasEssay Nobody Knows My Name self-link
Princes and Powers collection Nobody Knows My Name
The Price of the Ticket hasPart Nobody Knows My Name