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Black Boy

Richard Wright"s "Black Boy" is an autobiographical portrait of growing up black in the South during the first part of the 1900s. Wright, whose political and cultural activities placed him at the centre of intellectual life in the United States, gives a vivid and terrifying depiction of the poverty, violence and psychological trauma that marked his life. Wright uses his writing to ask himself what, in his life and in...

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