“THE AUTODIDACT PROJECT”
by Ralph Dumain

RICHARD WRIGHT
STUDY GUIDE

Romare Bearden
The Street (Composition for Richard Wright), c. 1977
Gift of Werner H. and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky and Collectors Committee Fund
© Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
2001.58.1
Collection of National Gallery of Art

ON THIS SITE:

Richard Wright Defines The Outsider

“Negreto” (excerpt from Black Boy in Esperanto translation)

Richard Wright's Pagan Spain

Richard Wright's White Man, Listen!

"Richard Wright: In a Class by Himself" [review of Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley]

Book Review (Draft of above): Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley

Cornel West's Evasion of Philosophy, Or, Richard Wright's Revenge

Haiku for Richard Wright

Lest We Forget--The Hidden History of the African-American Autodidact:
A Belated Tribute to Black History Month

Individual Identity, Historical Meaning, and the Unknown Autodidact

Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground": Notes for Discussion

Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground": Annotated Select Bibliography

Black Studies, Music, America vs Europe—Study Guide

American Philosophy Study Guide

EXTERNAL LINKS:

general

The Richard Wright Connection (The C.L.R. James Institute)

The Richard Wright Connection: Quotations (a must-see)

Richard Wright--Richard Hancuff's Page

Slavery & Freedom Literature II: Modern (Richard Wright links)

Richard Wright (1908-1960): Modern American Poetry

specific

“The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright

Richard Wright classroom guide (to “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”)

“Black Boys and Native Sons” by Irving Howe (Dissent, Autumn 1963, pp. 353-68)

The Linguistic Turn, Materialism and 'Race': Toward an 'Aesthetics of Crisis' by Robert Young (Alethia 2.1, 1999)

Reading Guide on Native Son from HarperCollins Publishers

Richard Wright Centennial (1908 / 2008)

Reading Richard Wright on the Eve of His 100th Birthday
Monthly Discussion Sessions, January Through December 2007 (Jerry Ward)

The American University of Paris | International Richard Wright Centennial Conference

“Richard Wright at 100” Special Session of South Central Modern Language Association Convention, November 6-8, San Antonio, Texas

A Father's Son: Wright fiction published 2008

Richard Wright's Unfinished Work Hits the Stands (NPR) 2008

'Father's Law' a Reflection of Wright's Masterpieces (NPR) Jan. 7, 2008