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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... called an Essay on Projects , and another of Dr. Mather's , called Essays to do Good , which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life . This bookish inclination at length ...
... called to go and rub , curry , and feed , the horses . I obeyed , and was glad to obey . But whilst thus engaged , whilst in the act of throwing down some blades from the loft , Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long rope , and just ...
... called " worthless negroes , " perhaps a growing class , who float from town to town , doing rough work , having no permanent place of abode , not known to the white population gen- erally . The turpentine industry has brought many such ...
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 |