Reflections of the black ghettoization process in the selected African-American plays in ethnically specific perspectives

When the relationship between art and the era's conditions is taken into consideration, the reflections of the migrations, wars, diseases or other sociological incidents can be clearly seen in the artworks of that period as they put the realities of the circumstances on the stage. For this reason, art makers have taken significant responsibilities and undoubtedly, all the African-American playwrights, like other artists, have struggled to convey their various purposes to their community for social mobility such as raising coloured people's awareness, educating them about their circumstances, and making them take an active role in their liberation process rather than being passive. According to them, the theatre should be killed with its own prejudices, stereotypes, and misinterpretations about Afro-Americans and their underrated culture, so that it can reborn from its ashes. Thanks to this regeneration, the misconception about Afro-American history may be corrected from the beginning with the acceptance of the duality in their identities without ceasing one of them; Africanness and Americanness. The battle in this twoness in one black body has reshaped coloured people's perceptions towards their past, current situations and the future. Due to the ongoing suppression of the "white world," Afro-American people have not only been excluded from being Americans in their state of mind but also have been marginalized in the U.S. ghettos with the fear of exchanging their genetic heritage through interracial marriage. Therefore, this thesis examines black experiences related to ghettoization and its consequences depending upon especially miscegenation within the frame of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's theory of double consciousness and Frantz Fanon's inferiority complex term in the way of re-shaping coloured people identities in the selected plays which provide a wider perspective from different periods: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and Lynn Nottage's play; Fabulation, or the Re-education of Undine (2004). Keywords: Ghettoization, miscegenation, double consciousness, inferiority complex.