Race, Power and Language

August Wilson’s is well known for the series of plays he has written. All of Wilson’s plays had to do with racial issues and African American History. Wilson’s message reveals a larger message about how race, power and language intersects in the United States. With race we see that there are lot of stereotypes that go with it, because if your of this or that skin color than people tend to put you in some type of category. With race Wilson tried to raise awareness to the African American history that people tend to just push to the side and really don’t understand. Then with power  it seems like the majority of people with power are non-minority rich people, but aside from that Wilson kind of talked more about the power within oneself and how when he was 14 years old he had a hero and once he saw that his hero got knocked out he realized that instead of having someone else be his hero his could be his own hero and decide his own reality and not need to depend on other to fix his problems because he was able to find that strength within himself and feel more in charge of oneself and I guess Wilson was trying to persuade that once you have that power within yourself you could accomplish more within this harsh society. And with language is carries so many different meaning. When Wilson was 20 years old he realized that Dylan Thomas’s work had given him the idea of what it was to be an artist and even though he didn’t understand exactly was it was talking it amused his with the language and rhythm it was written in. Wilson continued to work his way up and read different peoples works and from there was when he was inspired to write his own works with a certain meaning behind it.