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Richard Wright Black Boy
Website Evaluators
Chris Huber - On Leave, Missouri
Julie Moore - Monroe High School, Wisconsin
Website Reviewer and Compiler
Charles R. Sanders - San Pedro High School, California
Site Ratings
1 = Poor 2 = Fair 3 = Good 4 = Excellent
PBS: Richard Wright: Black Boy
http://www.pbs.org/rwbb/
To accompany its video documentary on Richard Wright, PBS has provided this teacher's guide which "contains a wealth
of information." Particularly useful for teachers are "ideas for assignments and questions," along with pre- and post-viewing activities. Also included is a "chronology of important dates in Wright's life,"
and a good bibliography of "works by and about Wright."
Overall Rating: 3Black Boy
http://www.walrus.com/users/glieb/THESEM~1/blackboy.htm
This site is made up entirely of links to "background and contextual material" on author Richard Wright. Focusing mainly on Wright's novel
Black Boy, links will send teachers and students to sites such as, "Lest We Forget," "The African-American Historical Site," an "historical context" site, and the "disturbing and graphic 'African-American
Holocaust Site.'"
Overall Rating: 2City Honors Richard Wright Page
http://cityhonors.buffalo.k12.ny.us/city/reference/English/auth/wri.htm
This site is a curious melange of works which mention Richard Wright,
including "an undergraduate thesis comparing African-American females in novels by Wright and Zora Neale Hurston;" summaries of "critical responses to Native Son and Black Boy;" and "an excerpt from
the book, The City in African-American Literature." There is a "great chronology of Wright's life," but links are mostly useless.
Overall Rating: 2Richard Wright - A Webpage
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~cuff/wright/index.html
The main features of this rather plain site are "a bibliography of works by Richard Wright
in chronological order, (and) an extensive bibliography of criticism listed by author." While several links are listed, many are difficult to access. However, one link to a list of important dates in the
author's life would be "great for establishing context."
Overall Rating: 2 |
