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10Sep 2017 IMPACT OF RACISM ON IDENTITY AND SOCIAL IN RICHARD WRIGHT?s NATIVE SON AND BLACK BOY. Mutaz Tarik Shakir And G.Chenna Reddy Research Scholar (PhD),Department of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, AP, India. Assistant Professor and Research Director, Department of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, AP, India.

Highlights

  • Realities behind racism that has been a matter of question in the United States for centuries

  • Among the African American writers Richard Wright came into prominence, with his creative expression concerned with the social complexities of the Unites States and the reality of African Americans as oppressed minority

  • Richard Wright‟s contributions to American literature were perhaps best summed up by Dan McCall, professor of American studies at Cornell University, in his 1969 book, The Example of Richard Wright: Wright is the father of the contemporary black writer because when we come to Wright‟s best work we are faced with the central question about being black in America

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Realities behind racism that has been a matter of question in the United States for centuries. Received: 05 July 2017 Final Accepted: 07 August 2017 Published: September 2017 and racial identity of the African American characters in the fictional works of Richard Wright‟s Native Son (1940) and autobiography Black Boy (1945) created a controversial world shocking the sensibilities of both Black and White America by presenting the cultural and social

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