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Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children is a work made up of six distinct parts that include a nonfiction introductory essay followed by five fictional stories.

"The Ethics of Jim Crow" describes Wright's own experiences growing up. The essay starts with his first encounter with racism, when his attempt to play a war game with white children turns ugly, and follows his experiences with the problems of being black in the South...

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