Raisin in the sun and its parallels to the black American dream

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10/21/2009

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Table of Contents Raisin in the sun and its parallels to the black American dream Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Achieving the American Dream
  3. Jim Crow as a racial slur
  4. Jim Crow cars
  5. Facing discrimination
  6. The pride of the youngers
  7. The goal of immigrants
  8. The Freedmen's bureau
  9. The nation's first black institutions
  10. Critics against Walter Lee
  11. Conclusion
  12. Works cited

Abstract

raisin in the sun is a play of epic proportions. The lives of the younger' uncovers the hopes, dreams, and despair of black Americans as a whole. In this play we are engulfed into the quest of one black family's pursuit of the american dream. James Truslow Adams used the term "american dream" in his novel The Epic of America and describes it as "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" (214-215). He goes on to say that "it is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position" (Adams 214-215).

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Level :General public Study : Humanities/philosophy School/University : Saint Louis University

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