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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... race , are content and docile , but he never imagined Rich- ard Wright and Black Boy . FROM ALFRED HOLT STONE , " IS RACE FRICTION BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES IN THE UNITED STATES GROWING AND INEVITABLE ? ” ( 1907-1908 ) Thus we return to ...
... race , are content and docile , but he never imagined Rich- ard Wright and Black Boy . FROM ALFRED HOLT STONE , “ IS RACE FRICTION BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES IN THE UNITED STATES GROWING AND INEVITABLE ? ” ( 1907-1908 ) Thus we return to ...
... RACE executive director , said the category " other " and a fill - in - the - blank approach are not a substitute for a multi- racial category . " What happens when you say fill in your race or a combination of races , people will put ...
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 |