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A: The title Black Boy underscores the dehumanizing effect of racism, reducing an individual’s identity to color and age. It highlights the challenges Richard faces growing up black in America, and his journey to transcend the limitations imposed by society.
If Dr. Holmes were alive now, he would be proud, as I am proud, of the chance to help bring to the thoughtful attention of intelligent, morally responsible Americans, the honest, dreadful, heart-breaking story of a Negro childhood and youth, as set down by that rarely gifted American author, Richard Wright.
According to his daughter Julia, who wrote the foreword to Haiku: This Other World, “A form of poetry which links seasons of the soul with nature’s cycle of moods enabled him to reach out to the black boy part of himself still stranded in a South that continued to live in his dreams.”
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Overview. Black Boy (American Hunger): A Record of Childhood and Youth is American writer Richard Wright’s classic memoir about coming of age as a Black man in the Jim Crow South and his migration to Chicago.
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