Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans
Item
Title
Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans
This edition
"Brothers and Sisters: Modern Stories by Black Americans" . Ed. Arnold Adoff. New York: Macmillan, 1970. 237 pp. (Repr. 1975)
Table of contents
● Preface / Arnold Adoff
● James Baldwin / Sonny’s Blues
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Maud Martha and New York
● John Henrik Clarke / The Boy Who Painted Christ Black
● Eugenia Collier / Marigolds
● Pearl Crayton / Cotton Alley
● Henry Dumas / Rain God
● Junius Edwards / Mother Dear and Daddy
● Ralph Ellison / The Death of Clifton
● C.H. Fuller, Jr. / A Love Song for Seven Little Boys Called Sam
● Ernest J. Gaines / The Sky is Gray
● Nikki Giovanni / The Library
● Martin Hamer / The Mountain
● Langston Hughes / African Morning
● William Melvin Kelley / The Poker Party
● R.J. Meaddough III / The Death of Tommy Grimes
● Diane Oliver / Neighbors
● Carolyn Rodgers / Blackbird in a Cage
● Melvin van Peebles / From “A Bear for the F.B.I.”
● John Williams / The Figure Eight
● Richard Wright / The Man Who Was Almost a Man
● Biographical Notes
● James Baldwin / Sonny’s Blues
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Maud Martha and New York
● John Henrik Clarke / The Boy Who Painted Christ Black
● Eugenia Collier / Marigolds
● Pearl Crayton / Cotton Alley
● Henry Dumas / Rain God
● Junius Edwards / Mother Dear and Daddy
● Ralph Ellison / The Death of Clifton
● C.H. Fuller, Jr. / A Love Song for Seven Little Boys Called Sam
● Ernest J. Gaines / The Sky is Gray
● Nikki Giovanni / The Library
● Martin Hamer / The Mountain
● Langston Hughes / African Morning
● William Melvin Kelley / The Poker Party
● R.J. Meaddough III / The Death of Tommy Grimes
● Diane Oliver / Neighbors
● Carolyn Rodgers / Blackbird in a Cage
● Melvin van Peebles / From “A Bear for the F.B.I.”
● John Williams / The Figure Eight
● Richard Wright / The Man Who Was Almost a Man
● Biographical Notes
Reviews and notices of anthology
• n/a
Commentary on anthology
• 20 stories: "Seldom anthologized writers included here are Pearl Crayton, Martin Hamer and C. H. Fuller, Jr." (Kinnamon 1997: 472).
Cited in
Kinnamon 1997: 472]
Item Number
A0124