"Rebel Against Unfairness": A Biographical Sketch of Lorraine Hansberry / Peter J. Bailey -- Critical Contexts. Historical Background: Lived Experience / Peter J. Bailey -- A Raisin in the Sun: Surveying Early Reviews of the 1959 Play / Robert C. Evans -- A Raisin in the Sun: A Survey of Early Reviews of the 1961 Film / Robert C. Evans -- "Completely disinherited": Revisions and Extensions of Raisin in Hansberry's Unfilmed Shooting Script / Sid Sondergard -- "Which of the Closets?": The Deflected Gay Subtext of A Raisin in the Sun / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- Hansberry, Baldwin, and the Origins of Black Broadway / D. Quentin Miller -- Critical Readings. The Paradoxical Victory of the Younger Family in A Raisin in the Sun / Joyce Ahn -- The Power of Mentorship: The Impact of Alice Childress on Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun / Amy Leshinsky -- "In These Trying Times, All That We Have to Cling to Is Each Other": Family Dynamics in The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun / Peter J. Bailey -- The "W" Word: The Inscription and Erasure of Whiteness in A Raisin in the Sun / Sue Norton -- "There's no such thing as a white folks neighborhood:" Hansberry's Imprint on the Chicago Housing Market / Amy Leshinsky -- Ideas in Motion: Beneatha's Pan-African Dream and Hansberry's Radical Activism / Sara Marzioli -- A Raisin in the Sun's Theatrical Legacy / Angela Sweigart-Gallagher -- A Raisin in the Sun: A Survey of Reviews of the 1989 and 2008 Films / Robert C. Evans -- Resources. Chronology of Lorraine Hansberry's Life -- Works by Lorraine Hansberry.

Provides a collection of critical essays on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.