A Comparison Of Race In 'Up From Slavery' By Booker T. Wright

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How do you write about race? How do you write about economics in a community? Two different authors, but same characteristics. Booker T. Washington author of “Up from Slavery”, wrote a letter titled The Atlanta Exposition Address to the president. In the Exposition, he wrote about he’s beliefs on African Americans economic growth and how they should see race in order to succeed in the new South. Compared to Richard Write author of Long Black Song, he writes about the conflict with white people throughout the story, dealing with race and economics. Long Black Song is part of the book “Uncle Toms Children”, and is about “… arrival of graphophone salesman while Sarah is still alone with her baby…” (Graves 284). The comparison and contrast of race
In addition, he talks about the loyalty of black people when they cared for them when they were at their lowest health wise. In similar Richard Wright also talks about race when his character Sarah says, “The white man was funny. Jus lika lil boy” (Wright 131). The quote is significant because Sarah does not see him as threatening when she meets him. These quote have similarities due to the way they both see white people as non-threatening. Even though this shows there are similarities the stories do not have the same emotion of race.
Booker T. Washington and Richard Wright how different views on how white and black people should view race and interact. In both stories they talk about race, but they do it differently in Atlanta Exposition Address in contrast to Long Black Song. Booker T. Washington in Atlanta Exposition Address he says:
To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange, tongue and habits for prosperity of the south, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, “Cast down your bucket where you are” (Washington
Moreover, this is meant to “[…] cause whites to feel sense of duty, responsibility, and satisfaction” in supporting black people (Cummings 77). In contrast, Wright in this quote “White men killed the black men because they could, the black men killed the white men to keep from being killed” (Wright 147). Moreover, Wright is saying white men are not to be trusted. In contrast Washington believed in “[…] cooperation between the two races” and “[…] realized that whites and negros would have to work together” (Tambe 97). In conclusion, this shows the authors see interaction between white and black people

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