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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... clear how complicated and difficult life was for blacks after the Civil War . He also makes clear how ridiculous it is to blame them for the South's problems , because they still had very little power . Al- though historians have ...
... clear note above the storm of protest against the things that are , that in his highest aspiration everywhere the white man's " prejudice " blocks the colored man's path . And the white man may with possible profit pause long enough to ...
... clear note above the storm of protest against the things that are , that in his highest aspiration everywhere the white man's " prejudice " blocks the colored man's path . And the white man may with possible profit pause long enough to ...
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 |