Going to Meet the Man
by James Baldwin | 
Uncle Tom's Children
by Richard Wright | 
Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara |
Homemade Love
by J. California Cooper | 
The Ways of White Folks
by Langston Hughes | 
The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart
by Alice Walker | 
Like One of the Family
by Alice Childress |
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
by J. California Cooper |
In Love & Trouble
by Alice Walker | 
Last Tales
by Isak Dinesen |
The Best of Simple
by Langston Hughes | 
White People
by Allan Gurganus |
A Dove of the East
by Mark Helprin |
Platte River
by Rick Bass | 
Lost in the City
by Edward P. Jones | 
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by ZZ Packer | 
A Lucky Man
by Jamel Brinkley | 
Rite of Passage
by Richard Wright | 
Dr. King's Refrigerator
by Charles Johnson | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie |
"Wright's unrelenting bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, of the human heart," said James Baldwin, and here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape one again. "Eight Men" presents eight stories of black men living at violent odds with the white world around them. As they do in his classic novels, the themes here reflect Wright's views on racism and his fascination with what he called "the struggle of the individual in America."