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Richard Wright · 1940
A powerful novel depicting the Black experience in America through the story of Bigger Thomas, a young African American man in Chicago whose life is transformed by a tragic crime. Wright's visceral narrative confronts systemic racism and the dehumanization of Black Americans.
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What this book knows
Bigger Thomas shows how systemic racial terror colonizes a young Black man's inner life until violence becomes the only legible self-assertion.
trauma-and-survival
He went home and sat in a chair by the window, looking out dreamily… 'Don't you go and get into no trouble, now, boy.'
NSR-RC-041The whole blind world which had made him ashamed and afraid fell away… rising renewed to the surface to face a world he hated.
NSR-RC-107ambition-and-status
In the past had they not always drawn the picture for him? He could tell them anything he wanted and what could they do about it?
NSR-RC-123shame
'Say, I'm slanting this to the primitive Negro who doesn't want to be disturbed by white civilization.' 'A swell idea!'
NSR-RC-163'All you ever caused me was trouble, just plain black trouble… I wish one of us had died before we was born.'
NSR-RC-175exposure-dread
He wanted to duck his head, or throw his hands in front of his face, but it was too late. They had enough pictures of him now.
NSR-RC-157Illuminates
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