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Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. Thomas kills a white woman at a time when racism is at its peak and he pays the price for it.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native Son | Author | Richard Wright | 1.00 | infobox |
| Native Son | Dewey Decimal | 813.52 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Native Son | Genre | African-American literature, Social protest novel | 1.00 | infobox |
| Native Son | Language | English | 1.00 | infobox |
| Native Son | Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Native Son | OCLC | 61277693 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Native Son | Publication date | March 1, 1940 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Native Son | Publication place | United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Native Son | Publisher | Harper & Brothers | 1.00 | infobox |
| Native Son | is a | title of a collection of ten essays by James Baldwin | 0.90 | text |
| donate ping-pong tables to them | instance of | he does things | 0.80 | text |
| or hire individual blacks to work in his house | instance of | he does things | 0.80 | text |
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