Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood

Kwame Mbalia

• Title

  Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood

• Date 2021
• ISBN 9780593379936
• Publisher New York: Delacorte Pres
• Description 296 p; 8.5 in
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  Black boy joy is…
   
  Picking out a fresh first-day-of-school outfit.
  Saving the universe in an epic intergalactic race.
  Finding your voice—and your rhymes—during tough times.
  Flying on your skateboard like nobody’s watching.
   
  And more! From seventeen acclaimed Black male and non-binary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
  
  Contributors include: B. B. Alston, Dean Atta, P. Djèlí Clark, Jay Coles, Jerry Craft, Lamar Giles, Don P. Hooper, George M. Johnson, Varian Johnson, Kwame Mbalia, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Julian Randall, Jason Reynolds, Justin Reynolds, DaVaun Sanders, and Julian Winters (Barnes & Noble). 

• Tags Youth writing, Blackness