Black Boy

Richard Wright First published 2005

About this book

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.

Subjects

african american
african american authors
african american families
african american novelists
african americans
african americans, biography
african americans, mississippi
african americans, social life and customs
african american studies
afro-americans
american authors
american fiction
american fiction (fictional works by one author)
authors, american
authors, biography
biographies
biography
biography & autobiography
blacks
childhood and youth
cultural heritage
discrimination & race relations
écrivains américains
ethnic studies
fiction, general
homes
homes and haunts
long now manual for civilization
mississippi, social life and customs
national black family month
nonfiction
reading level-grade 11
reading level-grade 12
segregation
social conditions
social life and customs
social science
wright, richard, 1908-1960
youth