West Side Story

Watch West Side story musical

Link to Show (https://www.operaonvideo.com/west-side-story-movie-complete-1961/)

Prompt: According to Audre Lorde, does the musical reinforce or challenge standard binary positions. Use one quote from Lorde’s article that explains a tool of oppression and correlate it to an example in the musical to support your argument.

Audre Lord reading is attached as a file. There are highlighted quotes, so just use one of those.

Advice: Write about racism in the show between the whites and the Puerto Rican gang and use a quote from Audre Lorde’s reading to correlate it.

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