To Be Young, Gifted and Black  30866

Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

  • Preface to the Vintage Edition   Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff
  • Introduction: “Sweet Lorraine”   James Baldwin
  • Foreword   Robert Nemiroff
  • Prologue: Measure Him Right, Child
  • Part One: “I Wish to Live …”
    1. Chicago: Southside Summers
    2. Sarah, I Kin Read
    3. White Fur in the Midde of the Depression
    4. Queen of the Ethiopes!
    5. Wisconsin: Of Vikings and Congo Drums
    6. Take Away Our Hearts O’ Stone
    7. New York: Baby, You Could Be Jesus in Drag …
    8. I Am a Writer, I Am Going to Write.
    9. Curtain Going Up at Eight
  • Part Two: “… For Generations and Generations and Generations”
    1. … A Slight Sense of Justification for Being …
    2. The Human Race Concerns Me
    3. What Use Are Flowers?
    4. Croton-on-Hudson: Will Work or Perish
    5. … A Matter of Nature in Imperfection
  • Part Three: A Line Into Infinity
    1. The Bulwark of the Republic
    2. There Are No Simple Men
    3. The Bridge Across the Chasm
    4. These Thousand Nameless Faceless Vapors
    5. You’re Tough, Mavis Parodus
    6. Do I Remain a Revolutionary?
    7. To Be Young, Gifted and Black
    8. Before ‘Tis Done …
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