A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
Resources:
Brief biography from biography.com
AUDIO: LA Theater Works production of A Raisin in the Sun (2021) via YouTube
VIDEO: "American Playhouse": A Raisin in the Sun (1989, Dir. Bill Duke) via YouTube
Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (2017): First feature documentary about Lorraine Hansberry
Criterion Collection release of the 1961 film
AUDIO: "Patricia Marx interviews playwright Lorraine Hansberry, August 4, 1961" from The NYPR Archive Collections
PODCASTS:
"A Raisin in the Sun Featuring Dr. Annika Prather" from Close Reads
"A Raisin In The Sun (1959)" from This Day in Esoteric Political History
"Imani Perry on the remarkable life and legacy of Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun" from Writers & Company
"310 Lorraine Hansberry" from The History of Literature
"Episode 7: Lorraine Hansberry" from American Writers Museum
"MGH & Studs Terkel: Lorraine Hansberry" from Making Gay History
Online Articles:
"How Lorraine Hansberry Wrote 'A Raisin in the Sun'” by Lillian Ross for The New Yorker
"The Many Visions of Lorraine Hansberry" by Blair McClendon for The New Yorker
"A Wiser Play Than Some of Us Knew" by Amiri Baraka for LA Times
Critical Articles:
"Discrimination and the American Dream in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun" - Babacar M'Baye
"Lorraine Hansberry as Ironist: A Reappraisal of A Raisin in the Sun" - Lloyd W. Brown
from In Search of a Model for African-American Drama: A Study of Selected Plays by Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka and Ntozake Shange - Philip Uko Effiong
"A Raisin in the Sun: Anniversary of an American Classic" - Margaret B. Wilkerson
"A Raisin in the Sun Revisited" - J. Charles Washington
"The Roof of a Southern Home: A Reimagined and Usable South in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun" - William Murray
"Silencing Lorraine Hansberry" - Bernadette Waterman Ward
"'Somewhat like War': The Aesthetics of Segregation, Black Liberation, and A Raisin in the Sun" - Michelle Gordon
