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Native son written by richard wright6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape society. Winner of the Springarn Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Story Magazine Award, Wrights highly-lauded novel Native Son deals with racial inequality in. Omar Tyree, New York Times bestselling and NAACP Image Award winning author of 13 novels They may not all become writers like I have, but at least they will know early on that black men do write, will write, and have written." So the mission now would be to create novels that the black male youth can read, relate to, and be inspired by as early as possible. And I grew up in inner-city Philadelphia where there are thousands of young black men who should be reading black authors much earlier than tenth grade. ![]() You see, up until the tenth grade of high school when I was first assigned to read Richard Wright, we had never read a black male author in school before. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas. Books by Richard Wright (Author of Native Son) Books by Richard Wright Richard Wright Average rating 4. ![]() "I can't necessarily say that reading the classic novel Native Son by Richard Wright, changed my life, but it did have a major impact on my thoughts about black men, America, and literature. Native Son is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. Richard Wrights 1940 novel, Native Son, was the first book by an African-American writer to enjoy widespread success. ![]()
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