The Middle Passage, By Lorraine Hansberry, Africa For The...

Through the voyage called the Middle Passage, many Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean to America. The Africans who were brought to America were enslaved and treated as inferior. They were faced with racism and were denied freedom and any basic human rights. Even after slavery ended in America, African Americans still experienced discrimination and prejudice. The idea of an emigration movement came about and was debated among the African Americans who were searching for freedom and liberty. The play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, and the essay, â€Å"Africa for the Africans† by Marcus Garvey, both portray the idea of emigration. Hansberry and Garvey’s works contrast each other in portraying the purpose of emigration. Beneatha’s possible decision to emigrate to Africa is because of her personal reason to find her identity and embrace an African heritage, whereas Garvey’s purpose of encouraging emigration is because of political motivation to establish a nation in the African continent. Although both works include the apathetic and opposing attitudes on emigration to Africa, these works differ in their treatments of them. Beneatha, who is a college student with a variety of interests, is more interested about seeking her identity and connecting to an African heritage than emigration. Thus, she does not respond to criticism about emigration as much as she does to the disparagement of Africa. On the other hand, Garvey, in â€Å"African for the Africans,†Show MoreRelatedLangston Hughes Research Paper25309 Words   |  102 Pagesbecome an actress, but roles for black women were scarce. Sometimes she took young Langston with her, but most of the time he stayed with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas. Grandmother Mary Langston, an American citizen of French, Cherokee, and African descent, was nineteen in 1855 when men tried to kidnap her and sell her as a slave. Her first husband, Lewis Leary, was killed in 1859 at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, during John Browns raid on the federal arsenal. Throughout Mary Langstons life