Damn All the Eggs That Ever Was: Meritocracy and its Failures on the Younger Family

In this article, Lorraine Hansberry\u27s magnum opus book about structural racism in 1950s America, A Raisin in the Sun , is discussed in detail, and how the book itself is a rebuke to those Americans who insist that our country is a meritocracy for all races and ethnicities. The lived experiences of the Younger Family, the African-American protagonists of the book, are filled with not only elements of structural racism, but the reactions of their neighbors and acquaintances to this racism as well