{"product_id":"black-boy-9780061443084","title":"Black Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South is \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ea profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cem\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/em\u003e exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. Orville Prescott of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e wrote that \"if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.\" Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book \"was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American.\" From 1975 to 1978, \u003cem\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/em\u003e was banned in schools throughout the United States for \"obscenity\" and \"instigating hatred between the races.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a \"drunkard,\" hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of \u003cem\u003eBlack Boy\u003c\/em\u003e, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wright, Richard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061443084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.60w x 1.30d","brand":"Richard Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39372800000075,"sku":"9780061443084","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_095a02e3-d12f-48e1-a9c3-1403ba27e7d3.jpg?v=1621928999","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/black-boy-9780061443084","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}