Record details

• ISBN: 080908676X
• ISBN: 9780809086764
• Physical Description: xxii, 218 pages ; 22 cm
• Edition: 1st edition
• Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, [1994]
• Copyright: ©1994

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one: Women in Simple's life : Remembrances -- Wigs, women, and falsies -- On women who drink you up -- Better than a pillow -- Explain that to me -- Baltimore womens -- Less than a damn -- Never no more -- Simply heavenly -- Staggering figures -- The moon -- Domesticated -- Hairdos -- Cousin Minnie wins -- Self-protection -- Ladyhood -- Lynn Clarisse -- Riddles -- Part two: Race, riots, police, prices, and politics : Ways and means -- The law -- American dilemma -- Color of the law -- After hours -- When a man sees red -- Simple and the high prices -- Nickel for the phone -- Possum, race, and face -- Everybody's difference -- Coffee break -- Intermarriage -- Joyce objects -- Liberals need a mascot -- Serious talk about the atom bomb -- Adventure -- Brainwashed -- Wigs for freedom -- Help, Mayor, help! -- Soul food -- Little Klanny -- Simple's psychosis -- Part three: Africa and black pride : The necessaries -- That word black -- Colleges and color -- Whiter than snow -- Big round world -- Roots and trees -- Pictures -- Simple arithmetic -- Africa's daughters -- African names -- Harems and robes -- Part four: Parting lines : Nothing but roomers -- Simple Santa -- Empty houses -- God's other side -- Dog days -- Weight in gold -- Sympathy -- Money and mice -- Population explosion -- Youthhood -- Hail and farewell.

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Subject:

African American men > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Simple (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.

Genre:

Serialized fiction.