To Make a Brother Black
To Make A Brother Black
What happened to the new world that African American Black Power and Civil Rights
activists tried to build during the 1960s? Was it all a dream? Have we overcome? How
have those involved made sense of their personal and professional lives? To Make a
Brother Black explores all of these questions through a unique combination of poetry,
drama, and narrative fiction. “I wanted to capture the love, the pain, the
accomplishments, and the disappointments of that era,” says Harris. “No single genre
could convey the complexity of that period.”
Critics agree: “Harris combines prose, poetry and drama into an alternately satiric, self-
critical and ultimately healing account of two male characters coming of age in the
sixties” (Professor Charles Toombs, San Diego State University); “Readers who came of
age during the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement will resonate easily with the
narrative and poetic self-explorations of the two main characters…” (Professor James B.
Stewart, Penn State University).
To Make A Brother Black is a must read for anyone wishing to explore the impact that
two of the twentieth century’s most important social movements—the Civil Rights and
Black Power movements—had on those involved.
