| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
xvii, 508 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Fiction/Black Studies. |
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Fiction/Black Studies.
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| Contents |
The sheriff's children / Charles W. Chesnutt -- The scapegoat / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Fern / Jean Toomer -- Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher -- The warf rats / Eric Walrond -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontempts -- Thank you, M'am / Langston Hughes -- The gilded six-bits / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Revolt of the evil fairies / Ted Poston -- Almos' a man / Richard Wright -- Marihuana and a pistol / Chester B. Hines -- The beach umbrella / Cyrus Colter -- The richer, the poorer / Dorothy West -- The almost white boy / Willard Motley -- Afternoon into night / Katherine Dunham -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- Come home early, chile / Owen Dobson -- Santa Claus is a white man / John Henrik Clarke -- The stick up / John Oliver Killens -- Health card / Frank Yerby -- We're the only colored people here / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The pocketbook game / Alice Childress -- The checkerboard / Alston Anderson. |
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This morning, this evening, so soon / James Baldwin -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- The blues begin / Sylvester Leaks -- Son in the afternoon / John A. Williams -- Singing dinah's song / Frank London Brown -- Duel with the clock / Junis Edwards -- Barbados / Paule Marshall -- The day the world almost came to an end / Pearl Crayton -- An interesting social study / Kristin Hunter -- A new day / Charles Wright -- Quietus / Charlie Russell -- Mother to son / Conrad Kent Rivers -- A long day in November / Ernest J. Gaines -- Miss Luhester gives a party / Ronald Fair -- The death of tommy grimes / R.J. Meaddough III -- Old blues singers never die / Clifford Vincent Johnson -- The only man on Liberty Street / William Melvin Kelley -- Beautiful light and black our dreams / Woodie King Jr.-- Red bonnet / Linsey Patterson -- The burglar / Lebert Bethune -- Junkie-Joe had some money / Ronald Milner -- Direct action / Mike Thelwell -- The engagement party / Robert Boles -- To hell with dying / Alice Walker. |
| Note |
Previously published as The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American -- African American authors.
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| ISBN |
0316380318 |
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