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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... better class of whites in the South and the better class of negroes , there would be no such thing as a negro problem . About six miles from the city of Statesboro lived Henry Hodges , a well- to - do planter . He had a good farm , he ...
... better " than another , and in Wallace's case , he knew better any- way . Note Bilbo's contradictory position : No one should be al- lowed to read Black Boy , but if his colleagues read it , they will see why it is so popular . FROM ...
... better " than another , and in Wallace's case , he knew better any- way . Note Bilbo's contradictory position : No one should be al- lowed to read Black Boy , but if his colleagues read it , they will see why it is so popular . FROM ...
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 |