Issues in Black Theatre

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This paper delves into the depths of the issues of racism and cultural assimilation as addressed in African-American theatre. It examines two plays, Alice Childress's "Wine in the Wilderness", which examines assimilation on a personal level and brings up issues of how it is that we, as a society, develop this assimilation, both consensually and nonconsensually, and Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman", which looks at the effects of assimilation and the forces that drive it.

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"America has been called the melting pot of the world. We are a nation composed of and created by the integration of dozens of cultures over two-hundred years. Unfortunately, true racial integration is something that has really only been developing in the past thirty years or so. With this integration come the eventual questions of assimilation and cultural fusion. The answers to these questions will form the basis of the future of our society and how the world culture develops."

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