This is a good piece of writing about Harlem Renaissance.
I found this very long time ago and I didn't keep the link.
If this is yours, please inform me so I can include your name as credit.
Lorraine Hansberry took the title of A Raisin in the
Sun from a line in Langston Hughes’s famous 1951 poem “Harlem: A Dream
Deferred.” Hughes was a prominent black poet during the 1920s Harlem
Renaissance in New York City, during which black artists of all
kinds—musicians, poets, writers—gave innovative voices to their personal and
cultural experiences. The Harlem Renaissance was a time of immense promise and
hopefulness for black artists, as their efforts were noticed and applauded
across the United States. In fact, the 1920s are known to history as the Jazz
Age, since that musical form, created by a vanguard of black musicians, gained
immense national popularity during the period and seemed to embody the exuberance
and excitement of the decade. The Harlem Renaissance and the positive national
response to the art it produced seemed to herald the possibility of a new age
of acceptance for blacks in America.
Langston Hughes was one of the brightest lights of the Harlem
Renaissance, and his poems and essays celebrate black culture, creativity, and
strength. However, Hughes wrote “Harlem” in 1951, twenty years after the Great
Depression crushed the Harlem Renaissance and devastated black communities more
terribly than any other group in the United States. In addition, the post–World
War II years of the 1950s were characterized by “white flight,” in which whites
fled the cities in favor of the rapidly growing suburbs. Blacks were often left
behind in deteriorating cities, and were unwelcome in the suburbs. In a time of
renewed prosperity, blacks were for the most part left behind.
“Harlem” captures the tension between the need for black
expression and the impossibility of that expression because of American
society’s oppression of its black population. In the poem, Hughes asks whether
a “dream deferred”—a dream put on hold—withers up “[l]ike a raisin in the sun.”
His lines confront the racist and dehumanizing attitude prevalent in American
society before the civil rights movement of the 1960s that black desires and
ambitions were, at best, unimportant and should be ignored, and at worst,
should be forcibly resisted. His closing rhetorical question—“Or does [a
dream deferred] explode?”—is incendiary, a bold statement that the
suppression of black dreams might result in an eruption. It implicitly places
the blame for this possible eruption on the oppressive society that forces the
dream to be deferred. Hansberry’s reference to Hughes’s poem in her play’s
title highlights the importance of dreams in A Raisin in the Sun and
the struggle that her characters face to realize their individual dreams, a
struggle inextricably tied to the more fundamental black dream of equality in
America. The underlying theme of Hansberry's Raisin is in the
question posed by Langston Hughes' poem "Montage of a Dream
Deferred," when he asks, "What happens to a dream deferred?" and
then goes on to list the various things that might happen to a person if his
dreams are put "on hold," emphasizing that whatever happens to a
postponed dream is never good.
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