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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black boy he believed that the white man was allowed to beat the black
child. Wright did not think that whites had the right to beat blacks
because of their race. Instead he assumed that the white man was the black
boy's father. When Wright learned that this was not true, and that the boy
was beaten because of his race, he was un able to rationalize it. Even as
he got older he didn't see the color of people. In one instance Richard and
a friend are standing outside a shop when some w ....
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