TY - BOOK AU - Hansberry, Lorraine, AU - Nemiroff, Robert, TI - A raisin in the sun SN - 0679755330;9780679755333;9780812416497;081241649X;9780673583369;0673583368 PY - 1994/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - African American families KW - Illinois KW - African Americans KW - Chicago KW - Discrimination in housing N1 - Originally published in 1958 N2 - When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever." ER -