Humans have always felt the need to differentiate themselves from one another. We see examples of this in history, geography, language, and even mathematics. Even less complex is the notion of race. Race is an ideology that has always existed, but only recently, that is within the last 100-200 years, been defined. It is simple to differentiate between peoples based on the color of one’s skin. Race (and hence, racism) has been expressed in …showed first 75 words of 2189 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2189 total…anymore? Will playwrights stop preferring particular races for particular roles they write about? As our society pressures us to change to a “colorblind” society our literature, plays, and films must change with it. I can only speculate on how race may be expressed in writing in the future, but I believe it will simply come to not acknowledging the differences between races of characters; instead focusing on the human race as one and defining race.