The story behind the story
Critical views. W.E.B. Du Bois on weaknesses in Black boy ; Isidor Schneider reviews Black boy ; Lionel Trilling on the tragic situation in Black boy ; Ralph Ellison on the origins of Richard Wright's sensibility ; George E. Kent offers some thoughts on Richard Wright's autobiography ; Horace A. Porter on Richard Wright and the power of words ; Carla Cappetti on Richard Wright's symbolic fires ; Yoshniobu Hakutani on some unique elements in Richard Wright's autobiography ; Jennifer H. Poulos on "bad language" in Black boy ; Robert Felgar on a cultural reading of Black boy ; Abdul R. JanMohamed on the social-death culture in Black boy
