Racial/class hegemony, when one group subjugates another based upon race/class, plays a very important role in the plays A Raisin in the Sun and Antigone. Today racial/class hegemony is one of the biggest problems facing us. It was an even bigger problem in 1960s America and in Ancient Greek. In 1960s America there was spread racial strife in Southern states like Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, ext. Powerful Black speakers rose up to protest about the widespread persecution blacks encountered daily. Such powerful speakers `as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
In Ancient Greece persecution was not so much based on race, but based upon class. The status quo was not race based, but based on if you were male and you owned land. Greek …show more content…
Walter is opposed to the move believing they should invest the money into a liquor store with Bobo and William Harris. Momma and Benetha are for moving into to Clybourne Park to get out of there small “rattrap” apartment. They also want to spite Linder, the racist representative from the Clybourne Park Welcoming Committee. They in the end would get both, Walter invested the money in the liquor store, but William Harris ran off with the money never to be found. They also moved into the house in Clybourne Park after Walter’s “growing up moment” when he told Linder to basically bite me.
In Antigone there is not any mention of racial hegemony because in Ancient Greece they mainly discriminated on class. Antigone doesn’t have to deal with class hegemony for most of her life. She is born into royalty, her father was King Oedipus, the King of Thebes. That is the reason her brothers killed each other, they were fighting for her father’s throne. She lived the good life until her brothers death because they were given different treatment by Creon. Eteocles is declared a hero and is given a proper burial, but Polyneices is declared a traitor and order not to …show more content…
Antigone has deal with gender hegemony, but never is discriminated on racial or social class background. The Youngers have to deal with racial and class discrimination throughout the entire play. A Raisin in the Sun is in many ways a story about the Youngers overcoming racial/class hegemony. The story of the Youngers is also more relatable to people today because people still have the same problems they had. A lot of black people still live in unbelievable poverty like the Youngers, and when they try to move into a nicer neighborhood they can still get the same reaction. We have came along way since A Raisin in the Sun, but we are not quite where we need to be. Until we get there we need writers like Hansberry to write about the problems and use literature to turn the lights on to expose all the rats and cockroaches that infest
In Ancient Greece persecution was not so much based on race, but based upon class. The status quo was not race based, but based on if you were male and you owned land. Greek …show more content…
Walter is opposed to the move believing they should invest the money into a liquor store with Bobo and William Harris. Momma and Benetha are for moving into to Clybourne Park to get out of there small “rattrap” apartment. They also want to spite Linder, the racist representative from the Clybourne Park Welcoming Committee. They in the end would get both, Walter invested the money in the liquor store, but William Harris ran off with the money never to be found. They also moved into the house in Clybourne Park after Walter’s “growing up moment” when he told Linder to basically bite me.
In Antigone there is not any mention of racial hegemony because in Ancient Greece they mainly discriminated on class. Antigone doesn’t have to deal with class hegemony for most of her life. She is born into royalty, her father was King Oedipus, the King of Thebes. That is the reason her brothers killed each other, they were fighting for her father’s throne. She lived the good life until her brothers death because they were given different treatment by Creon. Eteocles is declared a hero and is given a proper burial, but Polyneices is declared a traitor and order not to …show more content…
Antigone has deal with gender hegemony, but never is discriminated on racial or social class background. The Youngers have to deal with racial and class discrimination throughout the entire play. A Raisin in the Sun is in many ways a story about the Youngers overcoming racial/class hegemony. The story of the Youngers is also more relatable to people today because people still have the same problems they had. A lot of black people still live in unbelievable poverty like the Youngers, and when they try to move into a nicer neighborhood they can still get the same reaction. We have came along way since A Raisin in the Sun, but we are not quite where we need to be. Until we get there we need writers like Hansberry to write about the problems and use literature to turn the lights on to expose all the rats and cockroaches that infest