American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1642 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Lorraine Hansberry and *A Raisin in the Sun*
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The idea
The witness describes Hansberry's play of nineteen fifty-nine as revealing racism as a continuing undercurrent, in which a Black family meets a threatening welcome committee when it tries to move into a white neighbourhood. She was twenty-nine when the play opened, and died at thirty-four.
In practice
A family moves, and a committee arrives.
Where people slip
The threat is delivered as a welcome.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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