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cultural, political, racial, social, and literary contexts of its time, this casebook provides a rich source of primary historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary.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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... young Wright met , who represents his younger self as being almost the only sensitive and intelligent young black man in Mississippi , and who may have misremembered or rear- ranged some events . Even though the narrator reports his own ...
... young man , who stood well upon his two feet ; he dressed with a proper and decent pride in his prosperity , and wore looped upon his vest a watch chain that by its very weight bespoke the wearer's solid worth . The young man was an ...
... young black men . My grandfather tried to talk them into stop- ping , shaming them about such a fray in the presence of children , and warning them about the dangers of razors . They ignored him and went at it . I did hear of such ...
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 |