AP Lang. IRL

  Nowadays, its easy to over look simple aspects of how race effects society, however, in A Raisin in the Sun, many different aspects of how race impacts people’s everyday lives are explored. Throughout history, black people have been oppressed by systemic racism and many of those ideas are unfortunately still present today, but people of other races and descents (especially white people) very easily miss the injustice that is so obvious in society simply because it doesn’t affect them.   In most American schools where black students and teachers are a minority, issues of race are not brought up in the ways they should, which just emphasizes the division of students. In most schools, friend groups are generally based on race. There is nothing wrong with this, and some can even write it off as ‘naturalization’, but I can’t but personally wonder if this could be impacted slightly by the lack of acknowledgment of diversity in schools. While its extremely important to recognize an...

  After reading and analyzing a brand new perspective on race this week, I’ve realized that racial injustice is still exactly as present today as it was after the civil war, and unfortunately it was so anticipated, that the playwright confidently stated that this could take place anytime between the end of the civil war and the present (whenever that is). Not only does this get validated by the racial injustice we still have on 2021, but it also touches on that the civil war left behind a legacy, but still didn’t resolve any racism that is/was already present in the United States.   This ties into ideas of racism being passed down from generation to generation, and that the people who were still racist after the civil war, passed those same ideas onto their children to be passed down onto their children, and so on. With this mindset, no civil war, new laws, rights, liberties, etc. given to people of color (specifically black people) will change the mindset of those individuals...