1. Cora unashamed -- 2. Slave on the block -- 3. Home -- 4. Passing -- 5. A good job gone -- 6. Rejuvenation through joy -- 7. The blues I'm playing -- 8. Red-headed baby -- 9. Poor little Black fellow -- 10. Little dog -- 11. Berry -- 12. Mother and child -- 13. One Christmas Eve -- 14. Father and son.
Summary
In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.