Essays on Black Families

Lorraine Hansberry's play is one of the most famous literary works of the late 50s, which raises the issues of racism, racial discrimination, and cultural identity of African Americans. The author touches on the social problems of the postwar period, and most of these problems relates to the African-American cultural heritage. Hansberry describes the life of an ordinary African American family living in the south of Chicago. The family members' relationship and the response to the opportunity to achieve something more reveals the basis of the plot and the perspectives of the play. The play's problematics affect mainly the ...

'A New Look at Black Families' is an enlightening book written by Charles Willie and Richard Reddick. The book focuses on explaining how black families in America go about their dealings. By use of case studies the authors are able to depict an array of Black family experiences and how socio economic status affects these experiences. The book does not only try to portray the working, low-income, and middle class families but also hints on the life of highly successful African Americans, their family experiences and the environmental factors that drove them to achieve success. The authors of this ...

A call to conscience is a documentary that was made of all of Martin Luther King’s speeches. The director also talks with people who had been to those speeches. Interviews were also given to people who had interacted with MLK and their thoughts on the topics discussed. Speeches of his were discussed and many areas of concern were also represented. His speeches gave an insight into what was wrong with the country and how it affected the African American people in that time. They deserved to have a life and have rights to obtain a future in America. ...

Introduction

Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s book Colored People is an extra ordinary book that captures moments in history for the African American community and all the communities which existed during the transition period in America in the second half of the twentieth century. The author portrays this unique period in the American cultural life history by focusing on one small town in West Virginia as a microcosm for what was happening in the fifties and sixties across the American racial landscape. Piedmont was Gates home as a child and the color lines between the communities living there were almost deteriorating. ...