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Summary Of Hairspray: West Side Story
Just like in Hairspray the musical West Side Story there is segregation, but with the Latinos and Hispanic culture during the 1950s. They got the same treatment that African American’s did during the 50s and 60s. People didn’t like them because they were different from them. This also took place during the Korean War when america couldn’t trust and didn’t like different kinds of people in their country “A special focus on a cluster of intersecting themes, including the insidious interconnectedness of racism and nostalgia the targeting of youth and teen culture; and a shared subtext of fear (even paranoia) about outsiders” ( OJA). During the musical racism plays a big part, but unlike in Hairspray there are two groups that have no clue about
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