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A review by yarafadel
Black Boy by Richard Wright
4.0
This is a heavy book to read, the author speaks of his experience living in the Jim Crow south, then eventually moves north to Chicago for a better life. Highly recommended.
I don’t usually read book reviews until I am done with a book so as not to skew my opinion on what I’m reading. Reading reviews of this book was another prime example to show how micro aggressions and racism is very well thriving. You’ll read in the reviews that people claim this book was not about Wright’s own life, but any generic Black person’s life in the south at the time. This is an attempt to dehumanize yet another Black experience. I’ve also read in the reviews that the book sounded like an ongoing complaint where he did not do anything to change his circumstances - that made me ironically laugh. Wright did indeed do his best to save himself the best he could during one of the darkest times in history. Reading those reviews is beyond disappointing and frustrating.
I don’t usually read book reviews until I am done with a book so as not to skew my opinion on what I’m reading. Reading reviews of this book was another prime example to show how micro aggressions and racism is very well thriving. You’ll read in the reviews that people claim this book was not about Wright’s own life, but any generic Black person’s life in the south at the time. This is an attempt to dehumanize yet another Black experience. I’ve also read in the reviews that the book sounded like an ongoing complaint where he did not do anything to change his circumstances - that made me ironically laugh. Wright did indeed do his best to save himself the best he could during one of the darkest times in history. Reading those reviews is beyond disappointing and frustrating.