Where Clybourne Park Diverges From A Raisin In The Sun

“Where the dramatic urgency of Raisin and the first act of Clybourne” – both set in the same African-American neighborhood – “is driven by blacks and whites fighting to do the right (or wrong) thing in 1959, by 2009 the crises of action have been replaced by a comedy of manners. The issue is no longer what we should do but what we should say and how we should say it.”