How a dream is deffered

 Dreams could be differed in many ways. The Younger family's dreams are differed mostly due to their economic situation, but also due to pressure from others who urge them to give up.Walter's dream is to create a good life for his son and to get a physical labor job where he can achieve.Walter couldn't get it because he has a dead-end job and he has no money to advance. Beneatha cannot afford to pay for an education, and Walter tells her she cannot achieve it.

Shelley v. Kraemer

A restrictive covenant is a rule set up by a property owner that restricts the use of a property for future buyers. It is usually used to prevent unwanted businesses in a certain neighborhood, like stopping a bar  from being established in the middle of a neighborhood or to stop people from damaging . Once states were banned from making racist laws, people began using restrictive covenants and home owner's associations to stop people of other races from living in their neighborhoods.
 Shelley v Kraemer is a case regarding the validity of those rules. The black Shelley family moved into a home with a covenant that banned 'people of the Negro or Mongolian Race' from owning the property. A neighbor, Kraemer, sued to prevent them from living there. The case ended by concluding that the government cannot enforce racist restrictive covenants because it cannot enforce racist laws. In raisin in the sun the Younger family tries to move in to a white neighborhood, but are stopped by the people there, just like the Shelly family in the court case.


Wikipedia's overview of the case of Shelly v Kraemer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer

Analysis of Harlem & RITS annotation thing

What happens to a dream deferred? (an aspiration never accomplished)
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun? (Fall in to depression)
Or fester like a sore—(Depression)
And then run?(Infectious?)
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?(Sticky, once nice...)
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.(More depression)
Or does it explode?(Lash out at others)

–Langston Hughes

There are many instances of the family lashing out at itself, exploding. When Lena and Walter harass Beneatha. When Walter falls in to a depression, it is like he is crusting over or festering.

The desire to achieve 'The American Dream'

  The American dream, smiling wife, two and a half kids, white picket fence, car, a job you are passionate about, retirement, and a home to be the center of your universe. This dream infects all races & creeds, even if some have less of a hope to obtain it. In ARITS, the Younger family dreams of having an easy life. Their neighbor, however, warns them that they will get bombed if they try to improve their situation. This was common, as white family's American dream in the '50s seemed to include not living near a black family. The Klu Klux Klan (KKK) often lit black people's homes on fire if they tried to build in a white neighborhood.
  The instance with Mr Linder was very common, but not as personal as with the Youngers. Building committees and home associations would set up laws that taxed builders for getting a permit, with the largest tax of this kind was about $1,000 and the average about $200. These laws were not very discriminatory, but most people who were building their own home were black people. Also, they were enforced virtually only on black people, even arresting them for setting up a hut on their own property. They also created laws that created excuses to demolish the buildings in black suburbs, like rules against using recycled wood, just to get rid of black people.

I recommend this excerpt. Its where I get my 'facts'.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/896412.html

Harlem

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

–Langston Hughes

This poem makes no sense at all if taken literally, as I did when I first encountered it. If not taken literally, you can tell the metaphors for the different emotional states one may be in if one could not achieve one's dream. This poem gains a deeper meaneing when one takes in to account the title, Harlem. This shows the poem is directed at poor, black, disadvantaged people.