An edition of Black Boy (1945)

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An edition of Black Boy (1945)

Black Boy

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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.

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Caedmon
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English

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Subjects

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

People

Richard Wright (1908-1960)

Places

Mississippi, Southern States

Times

20th century

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Cover of: Black Boy
Black Boy
2020, HarperPerennial Modern Classics
in English
Cover of: Black boy
Black boy: (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
2006, HarperPerennial/Modern Classics, HarperPerennial ModernClassics
in English - 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
Cover of: Black Boy
Black Boy
2001, Turtleback
Library Binding in English
Cover of: Black Boy
Black Boy
2001, Perennial Classics
in English
Cover of: Black boy
Black boy: a record of childhood and youth
1993, Picador
in English
Cover of: Black Boy
Black Boy
1977, Caedmon
in English
Cover of: Black Boy (Imprint Books)
Black Boy (Imprint Books)
October 1970, Longman
Paperback in English
Cover of: Black Boy
Black Boy
1966, Harper & Row Publishers
in English
Cover of: Black boy
Black boy: a record of childhood and youth
1946, Gollancz
in English
Cover of: Black boy
Black boy: a record of childhood and youth
1945, Harper & brothers
in English

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OL32167970M
Internet Archive
lp_black-boy_richard-wright

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One winter morning in the long-ago, four-year-old days of my life I found myself standing before a fireplace, warming my hands over a mound of glowing coals, listening to the wind whistle past the house outside.
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