Gorilla, My Love (1972), the debut collection of short stories by Toni Cade Bambara, features "Raymond’s Run" and situates it among other stories where Hazel Parker is a recurring character. Out of the fifteen stories in the collection, eight focus on the experiences of young children and adolescents.

The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970), edited by Toni Cade, is a compilation of poems, short stories, and essays that explore a diverse array of issues concerning black women during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions (1996), a significant posthumous collection of Toni Cade Bambara’s works, offers the most up-to-date context for her writings. This selection includes a preface by Toni Morrison, several important recent interviews, and Bambara’s reflections on film, as well as previously unpublished short stories.

Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African-American Woman’s Film (1992), by filmmaker Julie Dash, features a preface by Toni Cade Bambara, who writes from her perspective as a filmmaker. Bambara views the film as a milestone in the maturation of independent black cinema.

Paula Giddings’ When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America offers a highly accessible narrative history of Black women and their concerns from the seventeenth century through the 1980s.

The anthology Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds (1990) merges two collections of stories by Black women writers, originally released in 1975 and 1980. The anthology includes updated commentary on each author by editor Mary Helen Washington and features stories by Toni Cade Bambara, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Paule Marshall, among others.