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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Black boy
a record of childhood and youth.
by Richard Wright
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Wright's unforgettable and eloquent autobiography of growing up in the Jim Crow South offers an unsurpassed portrait of the struggles against the ingrained racism and poverty faced by African Americans.
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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, generalPeople
Richard Wright (1908-1960)Places
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Black boy: (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
2006, HarperPerennial/Modern Classics, HarperPerennial ModernClassics
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- 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
0061130249 9780061130243
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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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