Rites of Passage: Stories About Growing Up by Black Writers From Around the World

Compiled by Tonya Bolden | Foreword by Charles Johnson

Table of Contents

“Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara (USA)

“The Scar” by Cecil Foster (Barbados)

“The Day the World Almost Came to an End” by Pearl Crayton (USA)

“The Late Bud” by Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)

“The Mountain” by Martin J. Hamer (USA)

“Bright Thursdays” by Oliver Senior (Jamaica)

“The Boy Who Painted Christ Black” by John Henrik Clarke (USA)

“BigWater” by Charlotte Watson Sherman (USA)

“Swan Song” by Quince Duncan (Costa Rica)

“Getting the Facts of Life” by Paulette Childress White (USA)

“The Test” by Njabulo Ndebele (South Africa)

“How, Why To Get Rich” by J. California Cooper (USA)

“Johnny Blue” by Archie Weller (Australia)

“Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier (USA)

“My Lucy” by Howard Gordon (USA)

“Dreaming the Sky Down” by Barbara Burford (England)

“My Mother and Mitch” by Clarence Major (USA)

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Seventeen stories of particular interest because of the high quality of their writing as well as for their diverse insights into growing up black. . . . A rich and rewarding assortment.
—Kirkus Reviews (a pointer review)

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