Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming of age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America.
Genres
- Social life and customs
- African American authors
- Biographies
- African Americans
- Écrivains américains
- Childhood and youth
- Biography
- Youth
- American Authors
- Segregation
- Homes and haunts
- Social conditions
- African American families
- Afro-Americans
- African American novelists
- American fiction
- Long Now Manual for Civilization
- Homes
- African American Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Ethnic Studies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Cultural Heritage
- Discrimination & Race Relations
- Reading Level-Grade 11
- Reading Level-Grade 12
- Nonfiction
- Blacks
- African American
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Wright, richard, 1908-1960
- Authors, biography
- African americans, biography
- Mississippi, social life and customs
- African americans, mississippi
- African americans, social life and customs
- Authors, american
- National Black Family Month
- Fiction, general
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