In "Stranger in the Village" by James Baldwin, Baldwin uses the word "stranger" multiple times in the essays to empasize the isolation and he feels in the small Swiss town as the first black man there. As the story goes on he becomes less of a stranger and the people wonder less and less about him in the town. He also talks about how the first white man in Africa was a stranger to those from Africa and compares how the Americans and the Swiss people treat him. As Baldwin begins to place together the comparisons between the village and that of America, he begins to think of the racial inequalities he faces as an African American, racial inequalities that led many African Americans to feel like a stranger in their own nation.
