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2) Black boy: a record of childhood and youth

Author

Wright, Richard

Series

A Perennial classic

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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 22

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A black youth growing up in the Jim Crow South is brutally taught his place in life by his family.

3) Black boy: (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth

Author

Wright, Richard

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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 22

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The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years.

4) Early Works

Author

Wright, Richard

Series

Library of America

Pub. Date

1991.

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"Native Son and Black Boy are classics of twentieth-century American literature -- and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. This two-volume Library of America edition presents for the first time Wright's major works in the form in which he intended them to be read. The authoritative new texts, based on Wright's original typescripts and proofs, reveal the...

5) Haiku: This other world

Author

Wright, Richard

Pub. Date

[1998]

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Black History - The Arts

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Dazzling collection of 810 Haiku written by the late African-American author of Native Son holds true to the traditional Zen discipline of depicting the relationship between man and nature, but does so from the perspective of an African-American man.

6) [Works]

Author

Wright, Richard

Series

The Library of America volume 55-56

Pub. Date

c1991

7) Native son (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

Author

Wright, Richard

Pub. Date

2005.

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CSL - Adapted for Film or Television
CSL - Black Authors
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Longer Book Club Reads

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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...