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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Felgar, Robert, 1944- Understanding Richard Wright's Black boy. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998 (OCoLC)605540787 Online version: Felgar, Robert, 1944- Understanding Richard Wright's Black boy. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998 (OCoLC)607912917 |
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| Named Person: | Richard Wright; Richard Wright; Richard Wright |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Felgar |
| ISBN: | 0313302219 9780313302213 |
| OCLC Number: | 37721392 |
| Description: | xiii, 165 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Literary analysis: dominant themes and structure of Black boy -- The autobiographical tradition. From: The autobiography / Benjamin Franklin ; Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass ; Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington ; The souls of black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The American dream of success. From: The Declaration of Independence ; The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution ; "What is an American?" / J. Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur ; Get-rich-quick Wallingford / George Randolph Chester -- The dream deferred. From: The North Carolina "Black Code" ; Mississippi's "Jim Crow" laws ; The Constitution of the state of Mississippi ; Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington ; The souls of black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois ; Interview with Clyde Cox. Race and racism, then and now. From: The Negro in Africa and America / Joseph Alexander Tillinghast ; "What is a lynching? A study of mob justice, south and north" / Ray Stannard Baker ; Folkways: a study of the importance of usages, manners, customs, mores and morals / William Graham Sumner ; Race prejudice / Jean Finot ; "Is race friction between blacks and whites in the United States growing and inevitable?" / Alfred Holt Stone ; Remarks about Black boy made before the U.S. Senate / Theodore Bilbo ; "Scars of slavery" / Jonathan Tilove ; "White? Black? Multi? Bi?" / William C. Singleton III. |
| Series Title: | Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series. |
| Other Titles: | Richard Wright's Black boy |
| Responsibility: | Robert Felgar. |
Abstract:
Presents a variety of documents which have been chosen to help readers understand the political, racial, literary, social, and general cultural contexts of the fictional autobiography "Black Boy."
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- Wright, Richard, -- 1908-1960. -- Black boy -- Sources.
- Wright, Richard, -- 1908-1960 -- Childhood and youth -- Sources.
- Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Sources.
- African American authors -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Sources.
- African American youth -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Sources.
- African Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Sources.
- African American men -- Intellectual life.
- Black boy (Wright)
- Wright, Richard.
- Black boy.
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