Stranger in the Village

Baldwin wrote the essay during a writing retreat in a small village in Switzerland. In it, he wrote about what it was like to be a black man in a foreign land. The feelings of isolation and lack of acceptance he experienced provided him with insight about the European ignorance of the African Race and race relations in the United States before the Civil Rights era. I found this to be a really easy read. Nice and short, to the point and I think he speaks very clearly and states his observation and the point he is trying to make.