The "Fate" Section of "Native Son"

1971 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Edward Kearns
Keyword(s):  
Native Son

Embracing the Negative: Native Son and Invisible Man

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Jerry Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
Invisible Man ◽  
Native Son

Native Son: The Personal, Social, and Political Background

1969 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keneth Kinnamon
Keyword(s):  
Native Son ◽  
Political Background

Race, Violence, and the City: Chicago’s Black Urbanity in Contemporary American Film and Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 291-302
Author(s):  
Izabella Kimak ◽  
Zbigniew Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Racial Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Native Son ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Strong Resemblance ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City ◽  
Film And Literature

In this article we look at three recent films–Native Son (2019, dir. Rashid Johnson, based on Richard Wright’s 1940 novel), Widows (2018, dir. Steve McQueen, based on a 1983 TV series), and The Hate U Give (2018, dir. George Tillman Jr., based on a book by Angie Thomas)–by Black directors that showcase the interactions between Blacks and whites in an American urban milieu. We argue that the setting of two of these films–Native Son and Widows–in Chicago, with The Hate U Give being set in a fictional urban setting bearing a strong resemblance to the Windy City, serves to articulate the continuing racial divisions of American cities in the twenty-first century. The three films show that the fossilization of the divide between Black and white districts inevitably leads to outbreaks of racial violence.

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