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An Equation of Collectivity = We + You in Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices

Authors: Ghasemi Mehdi

Publication year: 2018

Journal: Mosaic -Winnipeg-

Volume: 51

Issue: 1

First page : 71

Last page: 86

Web address : https://www.jstor.org/stable/90021826

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.”