"Black Is Beautiful"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Short story
Year: 1970
ID: 98
Publication history:
- 1970: The Year 2000, Doubleday Hard cover book
- 1971: Best SF 1970, Putnam Hard cover book
- 1971: The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 4, Sphere Mass market paperback
- 1972: Above the Human Landscape, Goodyear Hard cover book
- 1972: The Reality Trip and Other Implausibilities, Ballantine Mass market paperback, ISBN 345-02548-2, 210 pp.
- 1973: Speculations, Glencoe Hard cover book
- 1976: The City: 2000 A.D., Fawcett Mass market paperback
- 1979: Needle in a Timestack [2nd Version], Sphere Mass market paperback, 149 pp.
- 1985: Needle in a Timestack [2nd Version], Ace Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-441-56872-6, 180 pp.
Other resources:
[None on record]
Comments:
A lot of people seem to think that the races can't get along and never will, so what we need to do is live apart. In this future, from the inner cities has left them the exclusive territory of Blacks. This story (very much a product of its own era) tries to give us a peek at what a segragated New York might be like from a Black perspective, good points and bad.