Title: Rite of passage
Description: When fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs is told that he is really a foster child, he runs off into the streets of Harlem and meets up with a gang that wants him to participate in a mugging. Includes criticism of Wright's fiction.
Subjects: Fiction, Gangs, Runaways, African Americans, African American teenage boys, Criticism and interpretation, Children's fiction, Runaways, fiction, Gangs, fiction, Harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction, African americans, fiction
Places: Harlem (New York, N.Y.)