Abstract
This study aims at explaining the construction of American hunger in Richard Wright’s novel Black Boy. This study is a qualitative analysis that relies on the power of word or explanatory reasoning. The data were collected by reading, identifying, classifying and analyzed using the structualism theories which used in this study by relating to binary operation to see the gap between black and white society. The results of this study were the segregation between black and white people in terms of the treatment, power, and superiority that in the end, it resulted that the black people are being treated different and has no right for freedom. The American Hunger is described in the novel through some events that go in the opposite between black and white people. The tention between them revealed from the different treatment, oppression, discrimination, superiority, and hunger that the black and white people or society experienced. The dominance and the power of the white people had harm the black people in some aspects in their life. Second, American Hunger that was described in the novel was regarded as the desire of the black people when they were living side by side with the white people in America. When the discrimination, segregation, and oppression occurs toward the black people, they satisfied their American hunger by standing agaisnt racial oppression, strengthen the superiority, and against the hunger.
 
 Keywords: American hunger; construction; discrimination; structuralism
Highlights
This study aims at explaining the construction of American hunger in Richard Wright’s novel Black Boy
The writer of this final project entitled Construction of American Hunger in Richard Wright’s novel Black Boy gather the data based on the following passages; “I felt that the white" man had had a right to beat the "black" boy, for naively assumed that the "white" man must have been the "black" boy's father” (Wright. 1945:27)
Due to its reputation that black could not have the better job, they could not earn a lot. Sometimes they have to ask for a food and for a place to sleep. From those explanations about binary opposition in each sequences the writer give, it can be seen that the American Hunger is described in the novel through some events that go in the opposite between black and white people
Summary
This study aims at explaining the construction of American hunger in Richard Wright’s novel Black Boy. The Jim Crow social problems that happen in the society They Laws were unanimously being amended and are racial issues, discrimination, crime and any forced upon the inhabitants of those states. In expressing this reality, the United States have been strugling to obtain their black writer, has to first; explain the society to exact status that has not been settled yet, against him and create his art while opposing that racial discrimination for freedom and equal right. This event leads to the conclusion that the happened in almost all countries all over the black society is being treated different and has no world This issue has led them into inferiority and right for freedom. Racial I can say they feel “Hunger” of being issue can push a sense of hunger about American
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