THE 1950’s
1. What was the prevailing definition of women in the 1950s? What kind of problems did this create for married women, career women, working class women and women of color?
2. Go into Google,com and use as your search words “How to be a Good Housewife”. This should show up as the second option and will be identified as an excerpt from a high school textbook from the 1950s. Read this document (it is short) and comment on what kind of message it conveys and how this relates to our reading for this week in HWA.
3. How would you relate Lorraine Hansberry’s play Raisin in the Sun to the discussion of Black women and men in the HWA reading? Consider the character of Walter, What special race and gender problems does he face? How does that come to a crisis at the very end of the play in his final confrontation with Mr. Lindner? What role do the women play in this final scene?
4. How would you relate the Langston Hughes poem that opens the play to the various characters? What kind of DREAM does each of them have? What are some of the things that both fuel and frustrate those dreams? What is the status of those dreams by the end of the play?
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