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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... freedom came . It was a momen- tous and eventful day to all upon our plantation . We had been expecting it . Freedom was in the air , and had been for months . Deserting soldiers returning to their homes were to be seen every day ...
... freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries . To him , so far as he thought and dreamed , slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies , the cause of all sorrow , the root of all prejudice ...
... Freedom , too , the long - sought , we still seek , -the freedom of life and limb , the freedom to work and think , the freedom to love and aspire . Work , culture , liberty , —all these we need , not singly but together , not ...
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 |