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Eric Flowers Dr. Young EN 411 15 February 2005 Implanted Truths For nearly two centuries, from the first time a slave ship touched land, until the 1960's, the only voice heard in the United States was that of whites. Those that were of a different race, particularly blacks, were relegated to nearly complete silence. With very few exceptions, such as Frederick Douglass, black men and women idly sat and lived their lives without voicing the truths of race and race relations. One of the first writers to challenge the social problems that were attached with race was Richard Wright. Wright's autobiographical novel, Black Boy, was a ground breaking work that sought to shed a light of truth onto what it truly meant to live in America. Richard Wright uses his novel to assert his full belief that there is no inherent identity to a person based solely on his or her skin color. Instead, Wright...

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