Black Boy: Jeunesse Noire
ISBN:
9782070501175 (2070501175)
Publish date: 1985
Publisher: Gallimard
Edition language: French
TODAY (September 26th, 2018) I finished re-reading "BLACK BOY." I first read it when I was in high school many, many years ago. At the time I read it, the book left a big impression on me. Yet, as time went on, I gave Richard Wright's autobiography little more than a second thought. So, when one of ...
“Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It...
i hate that this is our history, and that it reflects far too much of our current attitudes as well (which is why i can't seem to read enough about this issue). i thought the stuff about communism was particularly interesting as it was entirely new information, and pretty fascinating.
This was a difficult book to read. Not because of the writing, the writing was excellent. But because of the subject matter. I don't think I realized quite how bad things were in the south for our black brothers and sisters. I've read Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, an...
I know this sounds sort of twisted but the first chapter was hysterically funny. Okay, what kind of child burns down his house before his teen delinquent career even began? I've only read up to part one of Black Boy but one day, I'll finish the rest when I get the book.
13 years ago
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