Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood

This anthology contains seventeen stories about Black boyhood by contemporary Black male and nonbinary authors. The collection moves among several forms and genres, including Afrofuturism, realistic fiction, comics, and verse. Its stories portray Black male youth and center joy while offering a range of approaches to storytelling. The varied formats place prose narratives alongside comics and poetry, with speculative and realistic work appearing in the same volume. Together, the contributions present many literary treatments of Black boyhood.