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Richard Wright
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Native Son
1940Richard Wright
Bigger Thomas, a young Black man in 1930s Chicago, accidentally kills a white woman, exposing the brutal reality of racism.
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Black Boy
1945Richard Wright
Memoir of Wright's childhood and young adulthood in the Jim Crow South, depicting poverty, racism, and hunger.
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Uncle Tom's Children
1938Richard Wright
Collection of novellas depicting racial oppression and violence in the Deep South.
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The Outsider
1953Richard Wright
Existentialist novel about Cross Damon who fakes his death and reinvents himself, exploring freedom and morality.
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White Man, Listen!
1957Richard Wright
Lectures on colonialism, racism, and the psychology of oppression delivered in Europe.
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