A checklist of short stories, novel excerpts covered with collegiate black men

Here's a checklist of 20 short stories that I've covered at least a couple of times (and some several times) with collegiate Black men enrolled in my African American literature classes over the years. I've arranged the stories by year of publication. 

• 1898: “The Wife of His Youth” by Charles Chesnutt 

• 1925: “Spunk” by Zora Neale Hurston  

• 1926: “Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston 

• 1947: “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison 

• 1972: “The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara

• 1972: “Raymond's Run” by Toni Cade Bambara

• 1973: from Sula by Toni Morrison

• 1981: “Exchange Value” by Charles Johnson 

• 1983: Toni Morrison's “Recitatif” 

• 1984: “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler 

• 1995: “Equal Opportunity” by Walter Mosley

• 1996: from The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty 

• 2001: “The Transmission” by Charles Johnson 

• 2004: “Old Boys, Old Girls” by Edward P. Jones 

• 2015: “Sweetness” by Toni Morrison 

• 2015: “The Electric Joy of Service” by Rion Amilcar Scott

• 2016: “Heads of the Colored People” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

• 2016: from The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 

• 2017: "Belles Lettres" by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

• 2021: “The Theresa Job” by Colson Whitehead

Related:

• Notebook on Collegiate Black Men Reading Short Fiction

• Black Short Stories: A Timeline