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Understanding A Raisin in the Sun - A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (Hardcover, New)
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Understanding A Raisin in the Sun - A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series
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A Raisin in the Sun is the first play by a black woman to be
produced in a Broadway theater. First performed in 1959, before the
civil rights and women's movements came to the fore, it raises
issues of segregation, family strife, and relationships between men
and women that are both representative of the time and timeless in
their universality. This interdisciplinary collection of commentary
and forty-five primary documents will enrich the reader's
understanding of the historical and social context of the play. A
wide variety of primary materials sheds light on integration and
segregation in the 1950s and 1960s; relationships between African
Americans and Africans; relationships between men and women within
African American culture; Chicago as a literary setting for the
play; and contemporary race relations in the 1990s. Documents
include first-person accounts, magazine articles and editorials
espousing opposing arguments, excerpts from the works of Toni
Morrison, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, bell hooks, Malcolm X, and
Richard Wright, and a selection of pertinent government documents
and eye-opening statistics. Many of the documents are available in
no other printed form. Each chapter concludes with study questions
and topics for research papers and class discussion, as well as
lists of further reading for examining the themes and issues raised
by the play. The casebook begins with a literary analysis of the
play, its themes and dramatic structure. Two chapters on the
historical context provide commentary and documents on the history
of segregation and integration in the United States, focusing on
segregation in employment and education as well as in housing, and
relationships betweenAfrican Americans and Africans and the back to
Africa movement. A chapter situates the play within the context of
the literature of Chicago, including articles about race problems,
as well as excerpts from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Richard
Wright's Native Son, Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago," and other
pieces. The topic of the relationship between African American men
and women is explored in a variety of articles on the African
American family, black fatherhood, black masculinity, and the
problems of African American women. A chapter on contemporary race
relations examines the current situation and includes first-person
accounts by two African American teenagers, current employment
statistics for African Americans, and articles on current problems
facing them. Each document is preceded by an explanatory
introduction, and each chapter concludes with study questions and
topics for research papers and class discussion, as well as lists
of further reading for examining the themes and issues raised by
the play.
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