In African Literature these two names Wallace Thurman and Richard Wright have contributed some of the most famous fictional works depicting Black culture in America. Since the two authors come from the same time period they share the experience of what it is like to be apart of the black race in America and depict it in separate but common ways. Both writers created works in the first half of the twentieth century that will …showed first 75 words of 1891 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1891 total…insecurity from other blacks with lighter skin. This is called Intra-racism or racism within a race. Bigger Thomas on the other hand had to deal with being put in an environment that because of the prejudices against him was very uncomfortable. He grew up under the status quo, thinking that he wasn't supposed to be equal to whites, and because of the oppression that he experienced, he ended up fumbling when it tested the hardest.