William M. Tuttle Labor Conflict And Racial Violence
“As racial friction mounted with the hear in the spring and summer of 1919, whites and blacks battled on the city’s streetcars and in its parks and schools. Several Negroes were murdered (...) .... This riot was also the result of longstanding discord between white and black (...)”[ William M. Tuttle, Labor Conflict and Racial Violence: The Black Worker in Chicago: 1894-1917 (Westport: Negro UP, 1970) 87.]
This statement by William M. Tuttle shows the desperate situation black Souther migrants faced who “fled from oppression in the South to seek jobs and justice in the North”[ Harald Bloom and Blake Hobby, The American Dream (New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009) 178.] just as Mama and her husband did. Unfortunately, the situation
hasn’t changed much, because Mama’s son Walter is still facing discrimination and racism which, as analyzed, is mainly portrayed through Mr. Lindner in A Raisin in the Sun.
As “studies of work and education in the post-World War II era suggest that, in 1950s and early 1960s, blacks had achieved substantial economic progress” A Raisin in the Sun has a positive outlook on the future because Walter who is the character, who has evolved the most during the play, finally faces Lindner, the embodiment of white racism, and throws him out of the house. The way he rejects the offer suggests that Walter and therefore the blacks won’t let them undermine by the racist attitude of others. Furthermore, this confident attitude Walter displays corresponds to Beneatha’s strive for independence and liberty. All in all, Hansberry hereby gives a specific outlook on the future, where the blacks will establish themselves financially, politically and socially. So Beneatha’s ideal of America being a “salad bowl” would be realized and thereby the American Dream of equality would be fulfilled. Hansberry clearly shows the reader that discrimination poses a major problem in the American society and implies that racism is probably the greatest problem to be surmounted in order to fulfill the ideal of the American Dream.
This statement by William M. Tuttle shows the desperate situation black Souther migrants faced who “fled from oppression in the South to seek jobs and justice in the North”[ Harald Bloom and Blake Hobby, The American Dream (New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009) 178.] just as Mama and her husband did. Unfortunately, the situation
hasn’t changed much, because Mama’s son Walter is still facing discrimination and racism which, as analyzed, is mainly portrayed through Mr. Lindner in A Raisin in the Sun.
As “studies of work and education in the post-World War II era suggest that, in 1950s and early 1960s, blacks had achieved substantial economic progress” A Raisin in the Sun has a positive outlook on the future because Walter who is the character, who has evolved the most during the play, finally faces Lindner, the embodiment of white racism, and throws him out of the house. The way he rejects the offer suggests that Walter and therefore the blacks won’t let them undermine by the racist attitude of others. Furthermore, this confident attitude Walter displays corresponds to Beneatha’s strive for independence and liberty. All in all, Hansberry hereby gives a specific outlook on the future, where the blacks will establish themselves financially, politically and socially. So Beneatha’s ideal of America being a “salad bowl” would be realized and thereby the American Dream of equality would be fulfilled. Hansberry clearly shows the reader that discrimination poses a major problem in the American society and implies that racism is probably the greatest problem to be surmounted in order to fulfill the ideal of the American Dream.