A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun demonstrates a clear difference in the struggle against racism between blacks who lived in the United States and African American. As Fanon points out in The Wretched of the Earth, African Americans and black Americans face the same problem; they share a common denominator of how they define themselves in relation to the whites. But, after this initial comparison, their objective problems are fundamentally different. As we see in this play, Walter is not concerned with analyzing his ancestor’s history of oppression in order to overcome it. In contrast Asagai, whom Fanon would label as a colonized intellectual, concentrates on his native culture to demonstrate meaning and valid existence of African ethnicity in order to overcome oppression.