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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... women in the book based on their physical appearance . Do you recall this attitude toward black women as being true of both black and white males when you were growing up ? Cox : I grew up among working class people and moved , except ...
... women in general and for their own conjugal life in particular ! The women were separated from their husbands as it pleased their masters , the children were transported if necessary far from their parents , the young girls were ...
... women are equal to the Negroes who are guilty of it against White women . Let us not forget , however , that all the cases of lynching are not solely due to outrages against White women . According to certain American statis- tics ...
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 |