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Black Boy by Jerry W. Ward Jr., Richard Wright

8 reviews

earthtokb's review against another edition

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5.0

hard to get through, but I'm glad I got through it. interesting to read about issues in the south 100 years ago, & to realize that conditions -- social, economical, emotional -- aren't better or worse for Black men, just different. happy to have read this, and wish I did before I wrote my own memoir about similar topics!

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babymandrake_666's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0


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antitypically's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5


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soupsswagreads's review against another edition

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dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0


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cookie_khumalo's review against another edition

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reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25


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challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.25

I found Black Boy to be a highly frustrating book at times; Richard Wright viscerally recounts what it is like to grow up as a perennial outsider, merely for wanting agency and respect in a world that denied both to him at every turn.

My knowledge of American history has many gaps, so the additional context offered by this book around the North/South divide was very insightful.

Despite it being very slow-paced and dense, I found myself getting much more into the book as it progressed, particularly from his late teens onwards. My main complaint would be that a lot of time was spent on his childhood, and while those formative experiences were very important and defining for him, I found it excruciating read about him getting accused of acting a certain way and beaten, and then repeat by several adults. 

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ma_nina's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.5


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srm's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0


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