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Raisin In The Sun and Reality


This week we discussed a lot about racism in class and how it is a big topic in A Raisin in the Sun. One of the more subtle ways racism affects the characters is when the Youngers are faced with the challenge of buying a house. Like how it was difficult for the Youngers to buy a house in Clybourne Park, it is also difficult for other Americans with different backgrounds that are not white. Another reason that encourages housing discrimination is when properties in predominantly white neighborhoods are charged more for people of color instead of whites. This can discourage this community form diversification of housing and yet instead corner the people of color to the city with worse conditions for what they have to pay for instead of what the whites have to pay. Naturalization also plays a big role in A Raisin in the Sun and in America to this day. In A Raisin in the Sun, naturalization is a tactic Mr. Linder tried to use in convincing that the whites in that neighborhood wanted to stay white. He takes naturalization a step farther when he also adds how he thinks that African Americans should also want the same thing. This is important in the book because this was his main reason to offer the Youngers more money for the house than what they paid for. With that being said, cases like this are reported to this day where "there were 28,181 reported complaints of housing discrimination" and “over 4 million instances of housing discrimination annually in the rental market alone." I think that everyone should be able to agree that we should have the right to buy and property that we want without any outside factors besides money but there are not many ideas to stop this trend. I think that there are not many ways to fix this other than to screen the tenents fairly and to learn and grow as a society to a point where this is not a problem. With that being said, this will take time and effort but I think that America will eventually reach a point where this will be minimized over time.

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