The Role Of Racism In Mama By Lorraine Hansberry

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This play is all about race and how in life it is probably one of the hardest thing that you will be able to escape . Weather you are white or black because if you are white then you will always be a racist well a lot of white people are in people of color eyes . If you are a person of color you will never be able to escape it even in your own community especially if you are mixed, because if you are mixed then to a lot of people of color you are white. Hansberry uses race in a very well in raw way there are a lot of point in the story where lorraine Hansberry uses assimilation to help show ones of the ways you could help escape racism but at the end she shows more negative than positive. Hansberry shows assimilation when she brings in …show more content…
what walter need is that, and the way he need that is by changing or molding himself into that white guy but how well is that gonna work for him he is a lower class male trying to open up a liquor store, and is the easiest thing to do. at one point walter say to mama “Mama – sometimes when I’m downtown and I pass them cool-quiet-looking restaurants where them white boys are sitting back and talking ‘bout things…sitting there turning deals worth millions of dollars…sometimes I see guys don’t look much older than me” . At this point walter sees his dream everytime he walks by the window, and when he walks by as go past the window what his dream is looking like is a bunch of white men at the this point the only way he gonna get a million dollar deal is become or shaping himself into a white man. walter then tries to get his mom to give him the money and she eventually caves in because he is the man of the house nie but he just had to do a few things with it well this is the point where is show the negative side of assimilation. walter give the money to a man that he thinks he may be able to trust but soon realizes that he can not trust this man. Hansberry uses walter to show not matter how much you may want something that you can not take the easy way out assimilation may look like it work but it sure doesn 't work for

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