Racial oppression and idenity crisis in richard wright's the man who lived underground

Abstract

The outstanding issue in the text, The Man Who Lived Underground is the social and racial clash that has persistently been between the whites and blacks. The very scuffle indeed creates a sort of marginalization on the part of the black people underprivileged of the social and political rights in the nation, America ever known as the most democratic country. Social dispossession and racial abuse on the part of the blacks pushes them to the situation where they feel the sense of deprivation. Fred Daniels, the central character who stands on the behalf of the entire black race makes efforts to speak against the white hegemony and tribulations but his voice is not heard. Despite his innocence he is blamed that he has committed crime which is not significant. Rather it is just the mark of the white domination and the predisposed mentality of the white race. Since racism has a wide-ranging wing, it covers up all sorts of suppression and ill-treatments done on the blacks by the whites. Unreservedly Wright’s attempt is slanted towards expressing the agonies of the marginalized and showing the current plight of the blacks through depiction of Fred Daniels who undergoes plentiful repugnant moments.