Fighting Charges of Assimilation in Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun and

Fighting Charges of enculturation in Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun and The Cosby carry The critical receipt of The Cosby Show, an enormously popular television situation comedy in the 1980s, roughly paralleled that of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberrys highly acclaimed trick of the 1950s. Both the television series and the play helped change the way cruddys are portrayed in the entertainment media. nonwithstanding despite being initially greeted with critical praise, twain subsequently cast under heavy scrutiny by many critics for being as well as assimilationist. However, in both cases, the charges of assimilation may perhaps be similarly harsh. A Raisin in the Sun, a drama of a middle-class family in Chicago, should non be regarded as a wholehearted endorsement of melanize assimilation into white society. Instead, the play offers a rather realistic encounter of the complexity of struggles that involves this issue. The Cosby Show, a comedy series about a self-made upper-middle-class black family in New York, must also not be viewed as an endorsement of black assimilation into white society. Instead, the sitcom dealt with universal family issues and po situated traditional family values and morals. But most importantly of all, both tried to do away with the prevailing negative black stereotypes in order to promote more positive and realistic representations. The claim that A Raisin in the Sun expresses the idea of black assimilation can be somewhat justified. Walter Lee Younger and George Murchison openly and consciously admit that rely for the white lifestyle. George has willingly denounced his race rather than uplifted it and is the epitome of a black man that has fully assimilated into the White mainstream. Walter, on the other hand,... ...revolution, not the just the entertainment industry. Works Cited Color Adjustment.Videotape. Dir. Marlon Riggs. Narr. Rudy Dee. California newsreel.1991. 87 min. Crenshaw, Anthony. T he Cosby Show Changed the Way Blacks are Viewed. Once Upon a Time in the Eighties. (1995) n. pag. Online. Internet. 3 Aug. 1998. Link to above site www.engl.virginia.edu/enwr1016/amc2d/cosby.html Pouissant, Alvin. The Huxtables fact or Fantasy. Ebony. Oct. 1988. 72-74. Turner, Darwin T. Visions of Love and virility in a Blackening World Dramas of Black Life Since 1953. The Black Scholar. vol. 25. No.2. 2-12. Link to the Lorraine Hansberry Page http//www.%20accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/hansberr.htm Link to an interesting site which provides some helpful info and question about A Raisin in the Sun www.randomhouse.com/acmart/raisintg.html