Damn All the Eggs That Ever Was: Meritocracy and its Failures on the Younger Family

Authors

Graham Dano, Illinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow

Abstract

In this article, Lorraine Hansberry's magnum opus book about structural racism in 1950s America, "A Raisin in the Sun", is discussed in detail, and how the book itself is a rebuke to those Americans who insist that our country is a meritocracy for all races and ethnicities. The lived experiences of the Younger Family, the African-American protagonists of the book, are filled with not only elements of structural racism, but the reactions of their neighbors and acquaintances to this racism as well.

Recommended Citation

Dano, Graham (2020) "Damn All the Eggs That Ever Was: Meritocracy and its Failures on the Younger Family," Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 25
Available at: https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/respublica/vol25/iss1/8