by Richard Wright
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.
Black Boy is one that I read in high school without ever truly appreciating it. This re-read definitely corrected my ignorance and failure at respect, for Mr. Wright is more than worthy of a reader's respect. Surrounded by ignorance, abject poverty, and an entire society that considered him less tha...
More so than Native Son, Black Boy is Richard Wright's masterpiece. The book is Wright's autobiography about growing up poor and black under the institutionalized racism of the South prior to the Civil Rights movement.
I listened to Black Boy by Richard Wright for this month's bookclub read. Wonderfully narrated, this is Wright's biography of growing up black in the South during the 1920s and 1930s. Wow, what a powerful book! I am definitely glad I read this book and I can see why this is required reading for s...
Having a difficult time with this book. I'm reading and reading, story after story, experience after experience-- is that the point? Just to tell his story? For some reason I thought this was a novel and not an autobiography.
This book feels like 2 books put together. The first one, about his younger life and much longer than the second one (thankfully), is incredible. This is one of those books they sometimes make you read in high school, which is how I came across it, but thank god they did! Wright's writing style in t...
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