Examples Of Misogyny In Black Boy

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white world. (Ibid 33) Strangely enough, for Jan Mohamed’s (1995) argument to work he himself must ignore the misogyny in Wright’s text. He never directly discusses the women in Black Boy, save one passage on Richard’s sick mother and there he cites her illness as yet another reflection of Richard’s suffering. Richard’s first job while in the South involved witnessing a gruesome attack on a black female client of his boss and the boss’s son. But, when he discusses this job—one of the moments when Richard faces his negation at the hands of white employers—JanMohamed completely omits the brutal attack. In Black Boy Richard (1945) recalls:

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