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Emily Payne. Connecting civil rights knowledge and personal knowledge to ideas within the play. Segregated Housing Issues. Minorities Ghettos due to constraints Social Economic Political Legal Whites Nice neighborhoods. Segregated Housing and the Youngers. Small Apartment Poor
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Emily Payne Connecting civil rights knowledge and personal knowledge to ideas within the play
Segregated Housing Issues • Minorities • Ghettos due to constraints • Social • Economic • Political • Legal • Whites • Nice neighborhoods
Segregated Housing and the Youngers • Small Apartment • Poor • Black housing • Clybourne Park • All white neighborhood
Stereotypes of the Time Period Regarding Race or Gender • Early TV- lazy and ignorant • Billy Cosby- first realistic portrayal • I Spy • Jim Crow • Sambo • Slave era • Buffoonish • Savage • Violent • Threatening • Sexually menacing
Stereotypes in A Raisin In The Sun • Bennie • Going to school for doctor • Walter • Low paying job outside house • Ruth • House wife • Little side jobs
My Background • Welsh, Prussian, Russian, Polish, German, French Canadian, Irish, Blackfoot Indian • Lookout man • Food
My Background • No effect on personal identity • Doesn’t effect personality • Culture is everything with Asagai • Bennie becomes influenced • George doesn’t care
Goals and Dreams • Scholarship to good university • Graduate debt free • Well paying job in nursing • Financially stable • Help those in need • Apartment in New York City • City environment
Goals and Dreams • Hard to achieve • Worth everything • Something to work for • Gives life purpose
Most Important • People are equal • Personality defines you • Work toward dreams