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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... seemed to be a stranger ( a United States officer , I presume ) made a little speech and then read a rather long paper - the Emancipation Proclamation , I think . After the reading we were told that we were all free , and could go when ...
... seemed to feel that they had been hypnotized . They seemed to feel that I had been too liberal in my remarks toward the Southern whites , and that I had not spoken out strongly enough for what they termed the " rights " of the race ...
... seemed to our age far more quixotic than the quest of St. Louis seemed to his . Behind the mists of ruin and rapine waved the calico dresses of women who dared , and after the hoarse mouthings of the field guns rang the rhythm of the ...
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 |