Life and Relationships
One of the states Richard Wright lived in
What is Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, New York?
Black Boy is the autobiography of this author
Who is Richard Wright?
African American struggles were highlighted in this part of the United States, as well as the South
What is the North?
One of the three literary lens that we covered in this slideshow
What are Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Trauma lens?
Turned into a move, a massacre happened in this town in the year 1923
What is Rosewood?
The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, she beefed with Richard Wright
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
In 1932, Wright became a member of what party
What is the Communist Party?
One of the authors that Richard Wright influenced
Who is Isabel Wilkerson, Claudia Rankine, Ta-Nehisi Coates, or James McBride
The Marxist lens examines the relationship between what these classes in society
What are the upper and lower classes?
This political movement became popular in America around the Great Depression
What is Communism
This person met with Wright in Paris
Who is MLK?
This person tells Wright that the man looking down on him was the judge
Who was his mother?
Movies and TV adaptations were made about these two books of Wright’s
What is Native Son and Black Boy
These types of actions, when occurring to characters, are what the trauma lens identifies
What is violent actions?
This is another name for the area that Wright lived in as a child
What is the Jim Crow South?
This book, telling the story of Bigger Thomas, is one of Richard Wright’s most famous works
What is Native Son?
Black boy focuses on Wright’s journey towards this
What is independence?
Richard Wright opened the door for these voices in literature
What are minority voices?
These are the aspects of characters that the psychoanalytical lens focuses on (guess one of the three)
What are their thoughts, feelings, or desires?
This is the name of the mass exodus of African Americans from the south to the north
What is the Great Migration?
One of the literary approaches that Wright took in his books
What is injustice, racism, or oppression?
During the book, Wright shows his ______ for literature, despite not receiving a good formal education.
What is hunger?
Richard Wright opened the door for these voices in literature
What is artistic freedom?
Richard Wright’s trauma comes from one of these two aspects of his life
What is his personal experience of racial prejudice?
This is the name for a series of race riots across the United States in the summer of 1919
What is the Red Summer