Racism in Native Son

Abstract

Black American literature of the twentieth century employed many themes which tackled by many Negros writers such as, racism by Richard Wright in his novel Native Son. Racism created many problems as the discrimination and the persecution against Negros. Therefore, Wright and the other writers fight against this injustice American society and oppression of Blacks in their works. They wanted to spread the idea of democracy and found solutions to the racial problems which impact passively against the Afro-American people. in addition, Marxism as a theory studies the literary works as the other theories. It tackled the subject of racism as Wright’s did. Both want to stop the discrimination and to abolish it completely