African-American are still struggling today for something they should have hundred years ago. Equal opportunity and freedom which was provide to them by the U.S constitutions. However, white race always find a way to restrict the freedom and equality of black by passing laws like segregation. It’s the separation of different racial category in a State. Racism played an important role to the struggle of African-American because white race belief they were superior to black. Racial theory runs profound in the history and cultural of the United States. African-American were considered as an inferior race.
They found satisfaction only by dreaming about things that they can realized because of racism. It’s hard to realize a dream or become successful in a community where others race considered your race as secondary. Both poems. “Theme for English B” and “Harlem” by Langston Hughes tell us the life of African-American in a white majority country. These two poems communicated how the disadvantage of being black make it hard to succeed in white world because of racism and segregation.
Hughes poem “Harlem” displays the limitations of the American Dream for the people of color. African-American have always dream for equality, liberty and the right to pursuit happiness in the United States. Hughes published the poem in 1951, a time where people of color spoke out against the impact of racism that were affecting their people or communities. Hughes writes, “What happens to a dream deferred”. He’s asking a rhetorical question to shows it’s hard for African-American to fight against racism and realize their dream of equality and success because their dreams are delay.
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They have deferred dream because the hope to reach it was lost. The system in the United States established a situation which almost guaranty that people of color would start far behind to realize their dream in a position of poverty because of racism. In addition, Hughes writes, “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun or fester like a sore and then run” (2-6). He keeps asking what happens to unrealizable dream that African-American are having because white race put them in ghetto like Harlem turned their lives into unsatisfactory dream. Does their dream would vanish like the raisin sun or decompose before running away from them? A dream that can’t be reach can become painful like a sore. It shows African-American dream are put on hold for so long and they are being purposeless to realize them.
