{"id":277,"date":"2012-09-02T01:09:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=277"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:09:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:09:48","slug":"year-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1940:<strong> Native Son<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Richard Wright<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1169657~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This landmark work was the first novel written by an African American to be a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. It chronicles the life of Bigger Thomas, a black youth from the slums of Chicago, who accidently murders a white women and is condemned to death. In the process of telling Bigger\u2019s story, Wright emphasizes the impact of racial injustice on his character&#8217;s development. Wright\u2019s intention was to write a book that was \u201cso hard and deep\u201d that the reader \u201cwould have to face it without the consolation of tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/NativeSon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-281\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/NativeSon2-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/NativeSon2-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/NativeSon2-624x443.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/NativeSon2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/NativeSon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-280\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/NativeSon-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/NativeSon-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/NativeSon.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1940: Native Son Author\/Editor: Richard Wright Find it in Collins Library! This landmark work was the first novel written by an African American to be a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. It chronicles the life of Bigger Thomas, a black youth from the slums of Chicago, who accidently murders a white women and is condemned to death. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1938-1947"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}