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W. E. B. Du Bois's review
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of Black Boy when it came out.
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I think this sums up nicely
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what I was trying to communicate last time.
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He says,
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"This book tells a harsh and forbidding story
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and makes one wonder just exactly what its relation to truth is.
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The title, 'A Record of Childhood and Youth' "
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--that was the subtitle--
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'makes one first think that
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the story is autobiographical.
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It probably is at least in part,