Black Is My Favorite Color Summary
Bernard Malamud

Black Is My Favorite Color Summary

Bernard Malamud's "Black Is My Favorite Color" was first published in the Reporter on July 18, 1963. It has since been reprinted in several short story collections, the first being Idiots First, also in 1963.

Eight years before "Black is My Favorite Color" was published, African-American Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, igniting the Civil Rights movement that reached its height at the same time Malamud was writing his...

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