De Amerikaanse schrijfster Lorraine Hansberry werd geborenop 19 mei 1930 in Chigago. Zie ook alle tags voor Lorraine Hansberry op dit blog.
Uit: A Raisin in the Sun (Introductie door Robert Nemiroff)
„Thus, in many reviews (and later academic studies), the Younger family-maintained by two female domestics and a chauffeur, son of a laborer dead of a lifetime of hard labor-was transformed into an acceptably “middle class” family. The decision to move became a desire to “integrate” (rather than, as Mama says simply, “to find the nicest house for the least amount of money for my family… Them houses they put up for colored in them areas way out always seem to cost twice as much.”).In his “A Critical Reevaluation: A Raisin in the Sun’s Enduring Passion,” Amiri Baraka comments aptly: “We missed the essence of the work-that Hansberry had created a family on the cutting edge of the same class and ideological struggles as existed in the movement itself and among the people…. The Younger family is part of the black majority, and the concerns I once dismissed as ‘middle class’-buying a home and moving into ‘white folks’ neighborhoods’-are actually reflective of the essence of black people’s striving and the will to defeat segregation, discrimination, and national oppression. There is no such thing as a ‘white folks’ neighborhood’ except to racists and to those submitting to racism.“

Lorraine Hansberry (19 mei 1930 – 12 januari 1965)
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