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A 5 page analysis of Richard Wright's autobiographical account of his youth, in which he recounts what it was like to grow up male and black in the South during the first half of the twentieth century. It is a story of rage, fear, and oppression. Although he lived in a culture that had a well-defined place for him, a place that was based on the assumption that blacks were inferior‹sub-human, even‹Richard Wright never assimilated into himself the idea that he was inferior in any way to the whites that surrounded him. No additional sources cited.
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place for him, a place that was based on the assumption that blacks were inferior?sub-human, even?Richard Wright never assimilated into himself the idea that he was inferior in any way
to the whites that surrounded him. He states: "I had never felt my place; or, rather, my deepest instincts had always made me reject the place to which the white
South had assigned me. It never occurred to me that I was in any way an inferior being" (227). Because Wright categorically refused to accept the assigned place for
the Negro in the white South, he experienced considerable conflict within his own family who saw his conduct throughout his youth as inherently dangerous. His family had been shaped by
the Southern environment. Consequently, Wright not only experienced white oppression first hand, but he also had to cope with it indirectly as it was reflected by his family and fellow
blacks. No one understood the intelligent, well-read young black man who was determined to meet the world on his own terms and unwilling to accept a position in life that
consisted of being considered less then fully human. In Wrights account of his early childhood, his clear-cut prose makes the reader feel his hunger and pain on a visceral
level. One sees that Wright was oppressed not only by racial issues, but also by issues of gender. When his father abandons his mother, the family nearly starves to death.
When his mother tries to find some justice in a white courtroom, the judge believes the fathers excuses on why he has not supported his family, even though he does
have employment. The father is, of course, black, but hes also male, and the judge believes him rather then Wrights mother. Wrights mother takes him and his brother to
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