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Both Black Boy by Richard Wright and Separate Pasts by Melton McLaurin are autobiographies that explore how race and segregation shaped the authors’ lives from opposite sides of the color line. Wright describes growing up Black in the South and slowly realizing the dangers, limitations, and injustices placed on him because of his race, while McLaurin reflects on being raised white in a segregated town and how personal experiences challenged the racist beliefs he inherited. Together, the books ...