Gritty: Richard Wright 'Black Boy' (1945)

There’s lots of indecency in this memoir – vile racism, horrific violence – but readers shouldn’t be protected from Wright’s rage and bitterness.

On the floor of the US senate, a Theodore Bilbo said "It is the dirtiest, filthiest, lousiest, most obscene piece of writing that I have ever seen in print.”
Wright’s memoir is emotionally and narratively like many published in the last 20 years.
And the Irish weren’t the only ones who’ve struggled with this book – this text has an epic history of censorship

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