Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical DocumentsIn Black Boy, Richard Wright triumphs over an ugly, racist world by fashioning an inspiring, powerful, beautiful, and fictionalized autobiography. To help students understand and appreciate his story in the cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary. The selection of unique documents is designed to place in sharp relief the issue of pervasive racism in American society. Documents include excerpts from other autobiographies and a novel, legal documents, speeches, an interview, an anthropological study, magazine and newspaper articles, and contemporary editorials. Most of the documents are available in no other printed form. |
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... southern states are content with their situation , or at least not disturbing themselves sufficiently over it to attempt to upset the existing order . In the main , the millions in the South live at peace with their white neighbors ...
... Southern States , from 1891 to 1902 , 1,862 persons , of whom only 1,448 were for attacks against women , 770 for murders , & c . This kind of justice , however , or rather injustice , has the effect of giving rise to the very crimes ...
... southern states are content with their situation , or at least not disturbing themselves sufficiently over it to attempt to upset the existing order . In the main , the millions in the South live at peace with their white neighbors ...
Contents
The Autobiographical Tradition | 15 |
The American Dream of Success | 55 |
The Dream Deferred | 87 |
Copyright | |
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Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy: A Student Casebook to Issues ... Robert Felgar Limited preview - 1998 |
Understanding Richard Wright's Black Boy: A Student Casebook to Issues ... Robert Felgar No preview available - 1998 |