Read a novel by Ann Petry or any other member of the "Wright School" (Chester Himes, Willard Savoy, Philip B. Kaye etc.) and compare with Black Boy. In the case of Petry's The Street, address the difference in terms of gender and the world of the urban black in the cities of post-WWII America.
What difference does it make whether one reads Black Boy or American Hunger to one's understanding of Wright's critical view of America? Does America "get off' easy in Black Boy because, after all, Wright does escape to the better life in the north?
Research the issue of Jim Crow and then compare that environment to race relations today: do we live in a more tolerant, egalitarian, society? Discuss current issues such as: Californian challenges to Affirmative action, the declaration of English as.....
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