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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"A Raisin in the Sun"”.
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The rhetoric of protest in the Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
This research study examines the rhetoric of protest in the legal case involving Carl Hansberry and his struggle to keep the home he had purchased for his family in a previously all-White neighborhood in Chicago. He filed a lawsuit when his family was going to be evicted from the home because the …
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Redefining Blackness in the Age of Whiteness: Mimicry, Ancestry, Gender Performance, and Self-Identity in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American Literature
<p>The elements associated with mimicry and colonialism are found in Elizabeth Nunez’s <em>Prospero’s Daughter </em>(2006), as the novel reveals how colonized subjects use mimicry to survive their colonized spaces. Keeping in mind the ideologies of Homi Bhabha and Wumi Raji, the novel also suggests …
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Beyond Lip Service: How teachers in a private school utilize multicultural literature
This qualitative dissertation is an investigation of the experiences of four middle grade teachers, three female and one male, three Caucasian and one African American who use multicultural literature in their language arts classrooms and the responses of the students of color they teach. The …
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The quest for identity of African American women from 1939 to 2000 in postmodern American Drama
This study was conducted to explore the oppression of African American women as well as to determine how their identity was in a struggle to gain in a selection of Postmodern American plays. Sharing the experiences of African American women and their black community of that time, represented as a …
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Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950-2010
<p>Theatre socially reproduces and contests economic, racial, and national hierarchies. There is a dearth of scholarship on U.S. regional theatre because of middlebrow anxiety and yet, for that very reason, regional theatre demands attention as a fitting example of the site of struggle over …
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A Portrayal of Gender and a Description of Gender Roles in Selected American Modern and Postmodern Plays.
<p>The purpose of this study was to describe how gender was portrayed and to determine how gender roles were depicted and defined in a selection of Modern and Postmodern American plays. This study was based on the symbolic interaction theory of gender that suggests that social roles are learned …
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Freedom and Equality Now! Contextualizing the Nexus between the Civil Rights Movement and Drama
During the second half of the twentieth century, the concepts of racial exclusion and inequality were impugned when the Civil Rights Movement undertook the challenge to bring about social and racial egalitarianism. The success of the Movement depended on contributions from many sources. This study …