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  • Chapter 12 - Transformative Movements

  • from Part II - Politics and Debates
  • Edited by Khalid Y. Long, Howard University, Washington DC, Isaiah Matthew Wooden, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    August Wilson in Context
    Published online:
    09 June 2025
    Print publication:
    26 June 2025, pp 149-160

  • Summary

    August Wilson once suggested that African Americans leaving the US South during the Great Migration was one of the worst things that happened to the community. Because the Great Migration and the chronicle of African and African American migrants’ histories/herstories are intertwined discussions, this chapter suggests that the American Century Cycle enables Wilson to design a culturally specific study of the affects and effects of the migration on the characters and geographic spaces he plots. It considers how Wilson uses the plays in the cycle to demonstrate his point while also providing hope that, even within the urban North, the realities of the South and transformation of Southern mores will not be forgotten or ignored.