


Lipari's work is only the most recent, scholarly judgment that maintains the status quo consensus on this issue. Even as recently as 2004, Lisbeth Lipari's article, '"Fearful of the Written Word': White Fear, Black Writing, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun Screenplay," appeared in Quarterly Journal of Speech. That Hansberry's screenplay was bowdlerized out of racist concerns is now left unquestioned, and no one has yet scrutinized these assumptions in order to test their validity. Since the "unfilmed original screenplay" of A Raisin in the Sun was first published in 1992, a storm of controversy has arisen over the changes between Lorraine Hansberry's original screenplay and the final, filmed screenplay.
