Theme of Lynching in Black Boy

Number of Pages 4

This essay describes how American culture in the first half of the twentieth century is pictured in Richard Wright's Black Boy. The essay specifically focuses on the theme of violence and how lynchings were used as an omnipresent threat that kept African Americans subservient and promoted white supremacy. Four pages in length, three sources are cited.


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