Research Catalog

Title

Understanding A raisin in the sun : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents / Lynn Domina.

Author

Domina, Lynn

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.

Description

xiii, 158 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series, 1074-598X

Uniform Title

Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.

Subject

• Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
• Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. > Sources
• Domestic drama, American > History and criticism
• African American families in literature
• African Americans in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Literary analysis -- Historical context: Integration and segregation in the United States -- From: "Abraham Lincoln: unfinished business" (1964) -- "Patterns of employment discrimination" (1962) / Herbert Hill -- The Southern case for school segregation (1962) / James Jackson Kilpatrick -- "Desegration in the north" (1957) -- "Detroit legalizes discrimination" (1964) -- The bluest eye (1970) / Toni Morrison -- "I sell my house" (1958) / Alan Wood -- "Gentlemen's agreement in Bronxville" (1950) / Harry Gersh -- "Housing Act of 1949" -- "Civil Rights Act of 1964" -- "Title VIII -- fair housing" (1968) -- Historical context: Africa, Africans, and African Americans: From: "The significance of African freedom for the Negro American" (1960) / Phaon Goldman -- "Africa in the thought of Negro Americans" (1959) / Earl E. Thorpe -- Travels in West Africa (1987 [originally 1897]) / Mary Kingsley -- The Africans (1982) / David Lamb -- "The Atlanta Constitution address" (1986 [originally 1901]) Booker T. Washington -- The souls of black folk (1989 [originally 1903]) / W. E. B. Du Bois -- "What Garvey thinks of Du Bois" (1921) / Marcus Garvey -- "Africa for the Africans" (1919) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- "The African republic and white politics" (1921) / Marcus Garvey -- "Manifesto of the Second Pan-African Congress" (1921) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The autobiography of Malcolm X (1964) / Malcolm X -- A Raisin in the sun and the Chicago literary tradition: From: "Excavating our history: The importance of biographies of women of color" (1990) / Margaret B. Wilkerson -- "The day the 'Race war' struck Chicago" (1962) / Nathan Hare -- Sister Carrie (1969 [originally 1900]) / Theodore Dreiser -- The jungle (1965 [originally 1906]) / Upton Sinclair -- Twenty years at hull-house (1990 [originally 1910]) / Jane Addams -- "Chicago" (1916) / Carl Sandburg -- Native son (1940) / Richard Wright -- Interpretations of gender in African American relationships: From: "Images of men in Lorraine Hansberry's writing " (1985) / Steven R. Carter -- The family in various cultures (1967) / Stuart A. Queen and Robert W. Habenstein -- Black looks: race and representation (1992) / Bell Hooks -- "Barriers and opportunities for America's young black men" (1989) / Donald R. Lewis -- Black fatherhood: the guide to male parenting (1995) / Earl Ofari Hutchinson -- The cancer journals (1980) / Audre Lorde -- Contemporary race relations: From: National Commission for Employment Policy, A changing nation -- its changing labor force (1991) -- United States Commission on Minority Business Development, Final report (1993) -- "Quit worrying" (1995) / Matthew Cooper -- "My race, my gender" (1995) / Jonetta Rose Barras -- Black fatherhood: the guide to male parenting (1995) / Earl Ofari Hutchinson -- Alcohol in America: taking action to prevent abuse (1985) / Steve Olson in collaboration with Dean R. Gerstein -- Race and class in American society: Black, Latino, Anglo (1994) / H. Edward Ransford -- It takes a village and other lessons children teach us (1996) / Hillary Rodham Clinton -- "It's not always about the color of your skin" (1997) / Tahisha Beresford -- "My nursing experience" (1997) / Samantha Day.

Call Number

JFE 98-12951

ISBN

0313303495 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98013975

OCLC

38550010

Author

Domina, Lynn.

Title

Understanding A raisin in the sun : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents / Lynn Domina.

Imprint

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.

Series

The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series, 1074-598X

Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. Raisin in the sun.

Research Call Number

JFE 98-12951

Sc E 98-1503