Money And Racism In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Money and Racism for Black American’s
The Harlem Renaissance writers show many ways that Black American’s struggle. The struggle with money, poverty and racism in the 1900s for black American’s was difficult as many of them did not have money in the begin and lived in poverty and were still treated poorly by whites. For many Black Americans they were able to move past poverty and able to obtain money like Walter in A Raisin in the Sun whose family received insurance money from the death of his father. Walter was all about the money he had plans to get rich with the money and not feel like a slave at his work. Walter wanted his family to have nice things like when he says, “You wouldn’t understand yet, son, but your daddy’s gonna make a transaction… a business transaction that’s going to change our lives” (Lorraine Hansberry 108). Mama however wanted them to use the money to buy a house. They currently live in

In A Raisin in the Sun Mama finds a house they can afford in an all-white neighborhood. Their neighbor comes by Mrs. Johnson says, you mean you ain’t read ‘bout them colored people that was bombed out their place out there (Lorraine Hansberry 100)? When the Younger’s are all packed up and ready to move into the house in the all white neighborhood Mr. Lindner comes by trying to give them money to not move there. Walter stands up to them like a man and does not take the money. “We have decided to move into our house because my father, he earned it for us brick by brick. We don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no cause, and we will try to be good neighbors. And that’s all we got to say about that. We don’t want your money” (Lorraine Hansberry 148). The Younger’s were not going to let racism keep them from their dream of owning a home and moving out the poverty area they lived