Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

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Richard Wright grew up within the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at the ones around him; at six he was once a “drunkard,” hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was once surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and at the other by blacks who resented any individual seeking to upward thrust above the average lot.

Black Boy is Richard Wright’s powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience within the Jim Crow South. It’s without delay an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.

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