Preface Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 A Brief Survey of the Critical Reception of Richard Wright's Novels 1.2 Double Consciousness and the Evolution of Triple Consciousness in the Process of Acculturation 1.2.1 The Theory of Acculturation 1.2.2 Du Bois's Concept of Double Consciousness 1.2.3 The Evolution of Triple Consciousness in Richard Wright's Fiction Chapter 2 The Impact of Acculturation on African Americans 2.1 African Americans during the Great Migration and Great Depression 2.2 Two Types of Acculturation 2.2.1 Negative Acculturation 2.2.2 Positive Acculturation 2.3 The Irony Resulting from the Positive Acculturation 2.4 The Weakening of the African Cultural Tradition and the Rise of Triple Consciousness in the Process of Acculturation 2.4.1 The Decline of the African Cultural Tradition 2.4.2 The Rise of the Third Consciousness Chapter 3 The Dilemma of Triple Consciousness 3.1 Blacks' Response to the White World 3.1.1 Submissiveness 3.1.2 Rebelliousness 3.1.3 Garveyism 3.2 Black American Dreams and Their Disruption 3.2.1 American Dreams of the Black Underclass 3.2.2 Lower Middle-Class Blacks' American Dreams 3.2.3 Middle-Class Blacks' American Dreams 3.3 Blacks' Identity Crises 3.3.1 Invisibility 3.3.2 Outsideness 3.3.3 Otherness Chapter 4 The Tension of Triple Consciousness 4.1 The Source of Tension 4.1.1 The Color Line and Segregation Which Help to Shape the Two Hostile Groups 4.1.2 Whites' Hatred of Blacks 4.1.3 Blacks' Hatred of Whites 4.2 The Warring Ideals in a Black Man's Triple Consciousness 4.3 The Socialized Ambivalence and the Dogged Strength that Keeps Black Bodies From Being Torn Asunder 4.4 Two Outcomes Caused by the Social Repression of the Third Consciousness 4.4.1 The Blacks' Self-Hatred 4.4.2 The Blacks' Self-Assertion Epilogue Works Cited 中文參考文獻(xiàn)