Gorilla, My Love (1972), Toni Cade Bambara's first collection of short stories, contains "Raymond's Run" and places the story within a context of others in which Hazel Parker plays a part. In eight of the fifteen stories in the collection, young children and adolescents play central roles.
Toni Cade's The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970) collects poems, short stories and essays discussing and reflecting a wide range of concerns of black women in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions (1996), an important posthumous selection of Toni Cade Bambara's writings, provides the most current context for Bambara's work, including a preface by Toni Morrison, and several important recent interviews, and Bambara's writings about film. The selection also includes previously unpublished short stories.
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