Legacy of August Wilson

August Wilson was one of first and many African- American who wrote dozen of contemporary playwrights. He was a man who liked variety of different music and even some of his friend were very astonished when finding out he listens to German opera. Wilson would try to read enormous of different kid’s book. “Whatever I could get my hands on”. (Kachka) He wrote cycle of plays. He wrote one for every decade and each of his plays connect to one another which was very fascinating to know. Since Wilson was spending most of his time in the library, he would try to read different plays and even though he didn't understand the meaning he would try everything he could to understand the meaning behind each words and sentence. “I still don’t know, but it sounds good” (Kachka). One of Wilson legacy that isn't every physical would be in his play, it reflected on real life and the struggle of African American. Some physical legacy of Wilson would be that there is a theater name after him. He wanted people to notice the different stereotype being used in today’s world and in the 20^th century.

His legacy reveals a larger message about race, power and language intersect in the united by the different African American character he had in his plays which showed the struggle they were going through in those time. I have notice people would want you to talk a certain way because of how you were possibly raised and where you came from. For example in the article “language, power and the performance of race and class it talks about how Obama had African American family but didn't spend most of his time with them but in other hand he lived most his life with his white family and that’s why he “talks White”. “Of what member of the category “African American might look like-so why is he characterized here as half American” (Bailey). People believe that since you have some white in your skin color you should be toward that race rather than just African-American.