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Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his upbringing. Wright describes his youth in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party.
Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
The bildungsroman of a poor black boy in the Jim Crow south to internationally renowned writer on the black experience and humanity of society’s disadvantaged. An incredible story with unexpected insights into the intolerance of religious fundamentalism, communism in America, and the systemic racism in education, economics, and even jobs ...
He collects insurance policies among black families on the South Side, and has an affair with one woman who is a policyholder. Although Wright is fascinated by black life in Chicago, he is also confused by it; many black people, like this unnamed woman, think Wright talks like an “intellectual.”
A seminal work in African American literature, Black Boy stands as a powerful indictment of systemic racism, providing an unflinching examination of the racial dynamics in early 20th-century America.
The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it...
Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.
