Determining authorship and authorial intention behind this play, which explores racial tensions, is a difficult process which is further complicated by the fact that Hansberry was an African-American woman, Nemiroff a white man. It may be impossible to know how much of Les Blancs in its present state was Hansberry's creation, and how much her original intent may have been changed, consciously or not, by Nemiroff's work. What is known, however, is Hansberry's determination to use her work as an agent of social change.
In the dismantlement of a colonial system as Franz Fanon asserts in his ever relevant book The Wretched of the Earth, he describes the vast difference between the rich and the poor and he explains the means by which the colonizers commands and maintains their power over the colonized. If one should use Fanon’s book as a guide while