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The American Dream, although different for each one of us, is what we all aspire to achieve. In the film A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family, who are black, all have a dream to better themselves and to have what all other American families want ¾ a shot at t ....

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.... free himself from the bonds of poverty, oppression and racial discrimination. Walter Lee feels that with money he can change the hegemony’s view of him as a poor, stupid, black servant. The hegemony’s social construction of reality about blacks as being lesser and the hegemony’s ethnocentric perception of being superior, is corroborated in an article titled “The Colour Bar of Beauty” from The Peak. Cristina Rodrigues, a member of the black cultural and social activist group Olodum, says “ In Brazil, nobody wants to be black because the mass media equates black with poor and stupid” (Aujla 2). Walter has a ....