Miranda Case
K. Kraus
WRT 102
11 May 2013
Research Paper 1st Draft.
Racial discrimination against Black Americans in The United States in the 20th century Richard Wright, an American author that wrote about racial prejudice in the 20th century. (Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia) He wrote about Negro-white relations in America, and also how Black Americans coped with how their America was treating them in the 20th century. In his autobiographical “Black Boy”, Wright reveals in bitter personal terms the devastating impact of prejudice on a black person in the City of Chicago, and New York during his formative years. He expressed his frustration in his early stories, and novels, with the experiences of Negro males and females both in the North and in the South, within their own communities as well as in their relationships with white Americans and white institutions (C. ". Norvell). Black men living in America during the 20th century was subject to harsh and cruel injustice, also by their government. The ill-treatment of Black Americans was the norm in America in the mid 1950’s to 1970’s, and this treatment towards Afican Americans seems to still have an effect on young black males in today’s society. The Black males in today’s society from New York to Los Angeles feel that they are getting the short end of the stick, when it comes to opportunities’ that the white Americans seem to get, which is not as harsh, of what the black males faced in the 50’s, nevertheless still hurts as deep as it did back at that time. In the short story “Big Black Good Man,” Richard Wright writes about a white character named Olaf who considers himself not a racist, until he encounters the character named Jim, a big black man, who was so black his skin seemed to appear blue. The appearance of Jim had an effect on Olaf that brought to the forefront his racial preconception. The white man, therefore, is superstitious about race, equating black skin with all that is primitive and dangerous. (C. ".
WRT 102
11 May 2013
Research Paper 1st Draft.
Racial discrimination against Black Americans in The United States in the 20th century Richard Wright, an American author that wrote about racial prejudice in the 20th century. (Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia) He wrote about Negro-white relations in America, and also how Black Americans coped with how their America was treating them in the 20th century. In his autobiographical “Black Boy”, Wright reveals in bitter personal terms the devastating impact of prejudice on a black person in the City of Chicago, and New York during his formative years. He expressed his frustration in his early stories, and novels, with the experiences of Negro males and females both in the North and in the South, within their own communities as well as in their relationships with white Americans and white institutions (C. ". Norvell). Black men living in America during the 20th century was subject to harsh and cruel injustice, also by their government. The ill-treatment of Black Americans was the norm in America in the mid 1950’s to 1970’s, and this treatment towards Afican Americans seems to still have an effect on young black males in today’s society. The Black males in today’s society from New York to Los Angeles feel that they are getting the short end of the stick, when it comes to opportunities’ that the white Americans seem to get, which is not as harsh, of what the black males faced in the 50’s, nevertheless still hurts as deep as it did back at that time. In the short story “Big Black Good Man,” Richard Wright writes about a white character named Olaf who considers himself not a racist, until he encounters the character named Jim, a big black man, who was so black his skin seemed to appear blue. The appearance of Jim had an effect on Olaf that brought to the forefront his racial preconception. The white man, therefore, is superstitious about race, equating black skin with all that is primitive and dangerous. (C. ".