Pandemic drama as an anti-racism scream of Asian-Americans through COVID-19 crisis

Ansam Riyadh Abdullah  Almaaroof; Husamuldeen Salem Mohammed Saeed Alnajar

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v6nS5.9877

Authors

Ansam Riyadh Abdullah Almaaroof
Sbc.s5@tu.edu.iq
Tikrit University-College of Education for women- English Department, Salah Alden, Iraq
Husamuldeen Salem Mohammed Saeed Alnajar Tikrit University-College of Medicine- Pharmacology Department, Salah Alden, Iraq

Keywords:

Pandemic, USA. formalistic approach, COVID-19, Postmodernism

Abstract

The readiness to see some lives as expendables grieve able than others is the theme around which this paper revolves. The discrimination as a concept reverberates throughout Pandemic, the radio play that this paper tries to analyses. Racism, this study hypothesizes, is dominant in the USA society, and it is inspired in difficult times such as the time of Covid 19. The study aims to answer the following question: Is it true that white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy are all old concepts? It starts with an introduction to the subject, then the methodology that the researcher follows to analyze the play and the discussion is the main part of the paper. It ends with the conclusion that sums up the results of the analysis.

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