August Wilson's Personal Identity

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August Wilson’s plays all have a realistic style, they have to do with everyone in everyday situations. Characters that he include in his play before anything are black, and that is clear to the reader by their African-American dialect. He emphasizes on the importance of the need to study one’s cultural identity in order to fully understand one’s personal identity. This is important for African-Americans because back then racism and discrimination was high and blacks were being taken advantage and over looked so much that people were forgetting to take pride in themselves and embraces who they really are which is, black. Wilson was also fighting to find his own identity being biracial, while living in a mixed neighborhood at some point in