Chicago Life From 1940’s to Present
Introduction
In “A Raisin in the Sun” the main character Walter’s mother obtains a large amount of money from an insurance company since her husband passed away. Many themes are shown in this novel that coincided with other sources about that time period’s hostile separation in Chicago. Times now in Chicago also not very bright times, due to the crime and segregation still present though not as common yet still just as severe. This segregation comes in three main points, those being job segregation, law enforcement bias’, and poverty levels of African Americans. So, while some changes in jobs have changed, law enforcement bias’ are still very present, and poverty is shockingly high still as shown in …show more content…
This was a degrading job as he states in the book “I open and close car doors all day long, I drive a man around in his limousine and I say, ‘yes, sir; ‘no, sir; very good sir; shall I take the Drive, sir?’ Mama, that ain’t no kind of job…” (Hansberry, 1959). As that quote shows the job he has is not a good job and yet was a good job for colored people in that time period. Also, through the dialogue of Walter and Bobo we see that black men owning a business would be unheard of. While we do have African Americans today that own businesses there is a definite show in discrimination between races when it comes to getting a job. 25% of the African American population are unemployed in Chicago as of 2014 (Emmanuel, 2014). While, it may be argued it has nothing to do with race discrimination it has to do with those people not trying, it cannot be denied that more than just low effort is to blame for this upsetting …show more content…
The fact that Travis has to sleep on the living room which depicts that they are lacking the space for a room that they need for him. In terms of today poverty in general Chicago is very high with 1.3 million of its residents labeled as unemployed (Freyer, 2014). This is a huge number of unemployed people, even more shockingly is that more than 2 times of whites unemployed are the number of African Americans unemployed in Chicago (Luhby, 2016). Which leads to the realization that we have not improved on the the aspect of poverty being connected to
Introduction
In “A Raisin in the Sun” the main character Walter’s mother obtains a large amount of money from an insurance company since her husband passed away. Many themes are shown in this novel that coincided with other sources about that time period’s hostile separation in Chicago. Times now in Chicago also not very bright times, due to the crime and segregation still present though not as common yet still just as severe. This segregation comes in three main points, those being job segregation, law enforcement bias’, and poverty levels of African Americans. So, while some changes in jobs have changed, law enforcement bias’ are still very present, and poverty is shockingly high still as shown in …show more content…
This was a degrading job as he states in the book “I open and close car doors all day long, I drive a man around in his limousine and I say, ‘yes, sir; ‘no, sir; very good sir; shall I take the Drive, sir?’ Mama, that ain’t no kind of job…” (Hansberry, 1959). As that quote shows the job he has is not a good job and yet was a good job for colored people in that time period. Also, through the dialogue of Walter and Bobo we see that black men owning a business would be unheard of. While we do have African Americans today that own businesses there is a definite show in discrimination between races when it comes to getting a job. 25% of the African American population are unemployed in Chicago as of 2014 (Emmanuel, 2014). While, it may be argued it has nothing to do with race discrimination it has to do with those people not trying, it cannot be denied that more than just low effort is to blame for this upsetting …show more content…
The fact that Travis has to sleep on the living room which depicts that they are lacking the space for a room that they need for him. In terms of today poverty in general Chicago is very high with 1.3 million of its residents labeled as unemployed (Freyer, 2014). This is a huge number of unemployed people, even more shockingly is that more than 2 times of whites unemployed are the number of African Americans unemployed in Chicago (Luhby, 2016). Which leads to the realization that we have not improved on the the aspect of poverty being connected to