Black Boy

Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension. 2020 marks the 80th anniversary of Richard Wright's Native Son's. Today, the book stands as one of the great pillars of black twenieth-century writing - a brash and often violent protest against racism and the strictures of society.