Annotated Bibliography on Learning from the Past, living in the Present
Bienen, Leigh B., and Brandon Rottinchaus. “Learning from the Past, living in the Present: Understanding Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930.” Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, vol. 92, no. 3/4, Spring/Summer2002 2002, p. 437. EBSCOhost. Accessed 31 Mar. 2019.
This is an educational article written by Bienen, Leigh B., and Brandon Rottinchaus. This article emphasizes the ongoing struggle that was happening in Chicago during the 1930s. The article gives various statistics on the homicide rates and includes the family violence that was on the rise majorly in African American communities.
Dunbar, eve. “The Multiple Frames for a Dynamic Diaspora in Richard Wright’s Black Power.” Papers on Language & Literature, vol. 50, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall2014 2014, pp. 269–280. EBSCOhost. Accessed 29 Mar. 2019.
This is an educational site with research information. This article, reprinted from an earlier volume of the journal, presents a literary critique of Richard Wright’s 20th-century American nonfiction work “Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos,” focusing on its framing of the African diaspora. Topics addressed include comparative depictions of race relations seen in Wright’s novels, the literary features of the narrative, and several conceptual contradictions found in work.
Gómez, Juan D. “Socialism, and Identity in the Life and Works of Richard Wright.” Revista La Palabra, no. 27, July 2015, pp. 33–43. EBSCOhost. Accessed 28 Mar. 2019.
This is an educational article written by Gómez, Juan D, about Richard Wright and how Richard was a pioneer in American Literature whose relationship with socialism helped to define him as a person and as a writer. This article describes the evolution of his relationship with socialism in order to better understand the writer and his best-known works in their social and political context. This exercise can also help us to gain a clearer understanding of the cultural and social implications of socialist ideology in the United States after the First World War.
Kunnie, Julian. “Richard Wright’s Interrogation of Negritude: Revolutionary Implications for Pan Africanism and Liberation.” Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 4, no. 9, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–23. EBSCOhost. Sunday. Accessed 31 Mar. 2019.
This is an educational journal. This is written by Julian Kunnie, Director and Professor of Africana Studies University of Arizona, Tucson. Julian writes about Richard Wright’s Interrogation of Negritude: Revolutionary Implications for Pan Africanism and Liberation. This article seems reliable and reviewed by many scholars and is published in January 2012.
“Prophets and Poets: Southern Literature, 1941–1962.” Films Media Group, 1999, fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=96311&xtid=43328. Accessed 31 Mar. 2019.
This is an educational video set with thousands of documenter videos with a transcript. This video program is presenting a biography of Richard Wright, author of Black Boy and Native Son, taking viewers from his impoverished childhood to his involvement in Chicago’s Black Renaissance, the Communist Party, and the witch-hunts of the McCarthy era, to his exile and death in Paris.