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