Richard Wright or The Oppressive Racist Anti-Ideology

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African-Americans make their history with the production of their material and moral lives in mind. This requires the development of a mindset capable of leading them to shed the prejudices against them and break the chains of social, economic, familial, cultural and biological determinism, to achieve existentialism. Determinism and existentialism, which for Richard Wright, remain systems of thoughts that evolve with antinomic relationships in their application to American material, social and cultural experiences, which bathe in a racist ideology of which historical materialism is the consequence in Richard Wright’s fictions. Furthermore, this racist ideology proves to be the most obvious expression of a contradiction between determinism and existentialism; a contradiction that reflects both a historical rupture in African-American/White-American relationships and a symbol of non-conformism in the face of the social, political and economic rules established by Whites. This sudden rupture questions, through the filter of Richard Wright’s oppressive racist anti-ideology, a subversive system by interrogating the conscience of American society as a whole.