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Racism In Wright's Black Boy
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The theme of Richard Wright's autobiography Black Boy is racism.
Wright grew up in the deep South; the Jim Crow South of the early twentieth
century. From an early age Richard Wright was aware of two races, the
black and the white. Yet he never understood the relations between the two
races. Th ....
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....d not understand the social differences between the
races. Wright's uncle was killed by white people, and Wright's aunt and
another uncle were forced to flee from the whites.
When Wright asks his mother about these incidents she tells him ,
"You keep your mouth shut or the white folks Ôll get you too." As a
teenager Wright learns that a friend's brother was killed by a white man.
When he hears about this killing he seems unable to do anything other than
sit and think about the incident.... |
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