Wilson's Contribution to Breaking Down Race Illusions

August Wilson's legacy consisted of a collection of plays and works he crafted that dealt with significant social conundrums that related to racial discrimination, language barriers and much more that resulted in "the Century Cycle". The projects were decade by decade and tackled the problematic race generalizations and the many more misunderstandings and complications that plagued the times he wrote about. These were critically acclaimed and enlightened many people and touched them as well. This is clear when Romero takes over his work and does what she needed to do to continue to enhance and spread his message in order to reach more people and make more of an impact. His work paints a larger picture of a community and culminates to an astounding set about the misinformation and other details that prevents movement and forward thinking. The works had reworked covers showing "Black America" which paints a picture Wilson conveys through his plays that there is a larger sense of art and a flourishing network of incredible people while trying to eliminate stereotypes and implicate education and enlightenment. I feel Romero proved this point when she "put a portrait of Ma Rainey on the cover of Wilson's 'Ma Rainy's Black Bottom.' A young black child at the keyboard adorns the script of his Pulitzer Prize work, 'The Piano Lesson';Wilson enlightened his audience about the hardships and trials minorities deal with and how certain behaviors and processes are perceived and results in racial categorization in the United States. Wilson's work highlighted these fallacies and continued to do so when he outlined these thoughts in each individual volume. His work had made an impact on many different people and many of which were also African American artists like when "Romero also drafted leading dramatists, critics and actors to write new prefaces for each script. 'I asked [playwright] Tony Kushner to do 'Seven Guitars,' because it's his favorite work by August. For 'Piano Lesson,' she went to novelist Toni Morrison. And actors Laurence Fishburne and Phylicia Rashad wrote prefaces to Wilson's plays they starred in on Broadway- respectively, 'Two Trains Running' and 'Gem of the Ocean.'