American Violence: Survival, Healing, and the Failure of American Policy, Wright Richard G.
Автор: Wright, Richard Название: Black boy ISBN: 1784876135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784876135 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве.
Описание: Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension. 'A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between the wars' Daily Telegraph At four years old, Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts about life, about fear, hunger and hatred, while his mother's long illness taught him about suffering.
In a world of white hostility and subjugation it would be his love of books and pursuit of knowledge that would propel him to follow his dream of justice and opportunity in the north. A chronicle of coming of age under the racial prejudices of the American south, as much the story of a writer finding his voice, Black Boy remains one of the great, impassioned memoirs of the twentieth century.
Автор: Wright, Richard A. Название: Native Son ISBN: 006083756X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060837563 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 2022.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Soon to be an HBO Film
"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son." - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.
Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.
This edition--the restored text of Native Son established by the Library of America--also includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born, along with notes on the text.
Автор: Lawless, Richard Phillip Название: Nightstalkers ISBN: 1636242057 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781636242057 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6328.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The untold story of the 868th Bomb Squadron, the `Nightstalkers`, who paired cutting-edge technology with daring - launching single-aircraft night-time missions stalking the Japanese in the Pacific.
Автор: Wright, Richard Название: Native Son ISBN: 0099282933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099282938 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman`s death, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charged with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pride in his crime.
Автор: Wright Richard Название: Black Boy [seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition] ISBN: 0062964135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062964137 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 2133.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author's grandson.
When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times 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." Yet from 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for "obscenity" and "instigating hatred between the races."
Wright's once controversial, now celebrated autobiography measures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a black boy. Enduring poverty, hunger, fear, abuse, and hatred while growing up in the woods of Mississippi, Wright lied, stole, and raged at those around him--whites indifferent, pitying, or cruel and blacks resentful of anyone trying to rise above their circumstances. Desperate for a different way of life, he may his way north, eventually arriving in Chicago, where he forged a new path and began his career as a writer. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo." Seventy-five year later, his words continue to reverberate. "To read Black Boy is to stare into the heart of darkness," John Edgar Wideman writes in his foreword. "Not the dark heart Conrad searched for in Congo jungles but the beating heart I bear."
One of the great American memoirs, Wright's account is a poignant record of struggle and endurance--a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time.
Автор: Wright, Richard Название: Wright: Later Works ISBN: 0940450674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780940450677 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 3678.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Jane Anna Gordon, Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh Название: The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance ISBN: 0813179599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813179599 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5346.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Yet, many political theorists have ignored his radical ideas. In The Politics of Richard Wright, an interdisciplinary group of scholars embraces the controversies surrounding Wright as a public intellectual and author.
Автор: Wright, Richard G. Название: American violencesurvival heacb ISBN: 1793600570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781793600578 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 21120.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Richard Wright analyzes the current state of the criminal justice system in tandem with the experiences of survivors in the aftermath of a violent crime, addressing the lack of cohesion between the current policies and the needs of victims, despite race, age, gender, economic status, occupation, or sexual orientation.
Автор: Wright Henry F., Stamm Sheila Wright, Stamm Richard Название: My Life, My Story: A Father`s Legacy, A Buffalo Soldier`s Journey ISBN: 1732367019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732367012 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1373.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book chronicles the journey of a Korean War veteran from a humble upbringing in North Carolina through his service as a combat infrantryman in Korea to his struggle for Civil Rights. It provides insights into the challenges faced by African Americans in the 1950s to present day.
Автор: Charvers, Linda Название: Violent disruptions ISBN: 143314218X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433142185 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 15281.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Violent Disruptions examines two authors who have powerfully predicted the formation of racial identities and its surrounding discourse in the United States today: William Faulkner (1897–1962) and Richard Wright (1908–1960). Using the works of Faulkner and Wright, this text argues that race becomes visible only through image production and exchange. Further, it argues that following the dismantling of our legally upheld racial inequality and everyday racist language, it is precisely the visual register wherein we see most acutely the continued present-day operation of racial inequality. Violent Disruptions thus places William Faulkner and Richard Wright at the center of our current dramas in the 21st century in popular television, political theater and criminal justice.
Originally published in 1948, 12 Million Black Voices pairs Richard Wright's beautiful prose with stunning photographs from the Farm Security Administration's files from the Great Depression. The images, curated by Edwin Rosskam, include photographs shot by legendary American artists like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein, adding a visual dimension to Wright's incisive commentary on the origins and history of black oppression in America.
From dusty rural villages to northern ghettos, 12 Million Black Voices is an unflinching portrayal of the lives that many black Americans lived in the 1930s. Depicting remarkable spiritual fortitude and resilience in the face of crushing poverty and hostile government policies, 12 Million Black Voices is a testament to the strength of black communities, giving voices and faces to a population that is too often invisible in the annals of American history.
(review blurbs)
"Among all the works of Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices stands out as a work of poetry, of passion, of lyricism, and of love" --David Bradley
"Short text and picture folk history of the Black American, in which the author of Native Son writes a burning commentary on three centuries of slavery, persecution, and want...Edwin Rosskam, the photographic editor, reinforces the text with superb photographs" --The New Yorker
"A more eloquent statement of its kind could hardly have been devised... flawless prose that takes on at times the quality of a folksong" --The New York Times Book Review
