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Show BLack Boy A Book Review By Richard Wright This book was loaned to me by E. Eugene Gardner. Gard-ner. It is much more capably reviewed in the current cur-rent issue of Coronet, with striking passages copied than I can give. Buy that magazine if you are interested. in-terested. Richard Wright is a negro, a forcible writer, and the book is about the negro question, largely his own autobiography, beginning with his earliest recollections rec-ollections and continuing up to the time that he goes north. It gives in very plain language the ill will of the South to the negro, how hard that is to bear, and what suffering it causes. Certainly there is much ill will, and these personal examples are well put forward. Racial intolerance, discrimination, abuse, the hatred ha-tred of the many forms expressed, some of the experiences which happend to him, give the reader cause for thought. We who are far removed from it can look at it objectively, free from prejudice, but in the South, the issue is a burning one, fraught with much danger. The book, American Dilemma, written writ-ten by a Swedish scholar, treats of the same subject, but it is too hard to read, too scientific, and dry I bought it and found it too difficult to read and gave it away. This book by Wright has some language in it some words that are not nice, and certainly of the gutter, don't read the book, for you will find in it some things that are not nice, a nd certainly some words that are very low. But if that is not offensive of-fensive try it. But certainly to some ears there are passages using quite coarse language. The review in this month's Coronet gives a condensation, con-densation, free from any objectionable matter, and it is worth reading. t I can't particularly recommend the book, and give warning, so use your own judgment. |