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An Equation of Collectivity: We + You in Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 51, Number 1, March 2018
- pp. 71-86
- 10.1353/mos.2018.0005
- Article
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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.”