An Equation of Collectivity: We + You in Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices | Semantic Scholar
@article{Ghasemi2018AnEO, title={An Equation of Collectivity: We + You in Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices}, author={Mehdi Ghasemi}, journal={Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal}, year={2018}, volume={51}, pages={71 - 86}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:165378945} }
Abstract:I approach Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices as a documentary fiction to show how Wright first depicts the “we” vs. “you” dichotomy between white and African Americans but then invites both to leave behind the “we” vs. “you” and embrace a “we + you.”
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