A collection of essays providing original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright.

Traces the life and achievements of the twentieth-century African American novelist, whose early life was shaped by a strict grandmother who had been a slave, a

First published, 1940. Novel about a young Negro who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to free himself proves helpless

In Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger, the veteran journalist Justin Murphy makes the compelling argument that the educational disparities in Rochester, N