It's the title essay of a 1955 collection that also includes "Many Thousands Gone" and "Everybody's Protest Novel."
In this essay, the narrator remembers seeing a movie ironically called This Land is Mine before walking outside and feeling a physical "click" at the base of his neck. At the end of its first section, its narrator describes walking into a fashionable restaurant where the apologetic tone of a waitress made him "colder and more murderous," causing him to pick up a mug of water and throw it at her with all his strength. Its author recalls being asks "You would rather write than preach, wouldn't you?" as the only time he and its central figure had ever really spoken. This essay describes its author's rage at being told "We don't serve (*) Negroes here," and ends with a section about the funeral of the author's father, which took place on the same day of a race riot in Harlem. It's the title essay of a 1955 collection that also includes "Many Thousands Gone" and "Everybody's Protest Novel." For 10 points, name this essay by James Baldwin whose title riffs on a novel by Richard Wright.
In this essay, the narrator remembers seeing a movie ironically called This Land is Mine before walking outside and feeling a physical "click" at the base of his neck.
"Notes of a Native Son"