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A powerful collection of never-before-published WPA images of black Chicago's defining moment. In the 1940s, the federal government sent a group of gifted photographers across the United States to record and publicize conditions in cities,

Любовь... Это светлое чувство порой таит тревоги и мучения. Но если чувство рождается между мужчиной и женщиной разного цвета кожи, то к мукам любви добавляются непонимание и неприязнь окружающих.

12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, rundown farm shacks to Harlem storefront churches, the photos depict the lives of black people in 1930s America--their misery and weariness under

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot.

Black Boy is Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering.

"The Man Who Was Almost a Man" also known as "Almos' a man", is a short story by Richard Wright. It was published in 1961 as part of Wright's compilation Eight Men. The story centers on Dave, a young African-American farm worker who is struggling to declare his identity in the atmosphere of the rural South.

Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством крупнейшего американского прозаика XX века. Главной темой произведений Р.Райта стала борьба негритянского населения Америки за гражданские права. В романе "Долгий сон", повести и рассказах широко отразился рост самосознания негритянского народа, в них поставлены общественные и нравственные вопросы, актуальные и по сей день.

Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Published in 1938, this was the first book from Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of the novels Native Son and Black Boy.

The Outsider is a novel by American author Richard Wright, first published in 1953. The Outsider is Richard Wright's second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative to show American racism in raw and ugly terms. The kind of racism that Wright knew and experienced, a racism from which most black people of his own time could not escape, remained the central element in his fiction. The Outsider appeared during the height of McCarthyism in the United States and the advent of the Cold War in Europe, two events which had a significant bearing on its initial reception.

Представляем Вашему вниманию сборник рассказов одного из самых значительных американских писателей - Ричарда Натаниэля Райта. В сборник вошли такие рассказы, как "Прислуга", "Не тот бог" и "Человек, который пережил наводнение".