Uncle Tom's Children
Richard Wright
Paperback
(Perennial Library, March 15, 1989)
" A collection of five short stories and an autobiographical essay by the renowned author of ' Native Son'. Taking for its characters Negro men and women at bay in the oppressive Southern environment, the book < Uncle Tom's Children> represents one of the few instances in which an American Negro writer has successfully delineated the universals embodied in Negro experience....." (quoted in part from the back page editorial by Ralph Ellison)