Wright saw Bigger Thomas’s psychological type as global and not race-or nation-bound

Evidence

I was fascinated by the similarity of the emotional tensions of Bigger in America and Bigger in Nazi Germany and Bigger in Old Russia. All Bigger Thomases, white and black, felt tense, afraid, nervous, hysterical, and restless… . [C]ertain modern experiences were creating types of personalities whose existence ignored racial and national lines of demarcation. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1371

Categorization

• XREF: Wright’s insistence that modern experience created a universal personality type beyond race cuts against purely race-based readings of Native Son and suggests a transnational psychology like the earlier Frankfurt character-type studies.
• SEED: Angle: how a Black American novelist used the fascist and Soviet cases to argue that racialized terror and authoritarian rootlessness were facets of one modern personality crisis.