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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.
- Richard Nathaniel Wright
- 1945
Apr 29, 2008 · 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.
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- Richard Nathaniel Wright
Learn about Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood and adolescence in the Jim Crow era American South. Find book summary, character analysis, quotes, and study tools for Black Boy.
In his semi-autobiographical novel, Richard Wright brilliantly describes the life of a "black boy" growing up in the racist and hostile south of the early 1900s. Moving north to Chicago, he gravitates to the Communist Party, whose race-blind approach gives him hope - but then becomes entangled in a different kind of repression.
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Feb 2, 2017 · A chronicle of coming of age under the racial prejudices of the American south, as much the story of a writer finding his voice, Black Boy remains one of the great,...
Jun 16, 2009 · The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to...
Mar 27, 2007 · Black Boy (1945) is the simple, vivid, and poignant story of Wright's early years in the South. It appeared at the beginning of a new postwar awareness of the evils of...
