Black Boy

Type

Book

Authors

Wright ( Richard Wright )

ISBN 10

0060830565

ISBN 13

9780060830564

Tags

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1945 - African-Americans, Black Experience, Family, Jim Crow South, Racism

Description

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. 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. - from Amzon

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