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Park, Busoon. “The Harmony of Integration: August Wilson’s Radio Golf.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 43.2 (2017): 117-136. Radio Golf, August Wilson’s play, is the chronologically last play of ten dramas of his famous Pittsburgh Cycle. Although his ten dramas were not written in the order of the chronology, they show chronological African-American life in twentieth-century America. As his ideas change little by little in writing many works, some characters that appear in more than one of the cycle’s plays show changed pictures of life depending on the situation of an era. His passion and effort on Pittsburgh Cycle have created Radio Golf on the brink of his death. Therefore, Radio Golf is the completed work that he sheds continuously new light on African-American life. Wilson argues in Radio Golf that the need for community, unity, connection to the past, and freedom are very important. As a way to appeal to his view like this, he shows the life that dreams of an assimilation into a white society by Mame Wilks and Roosevelt Hicks in the upper-middle class, the life that insists the blackness by Elder Joseph Barlow and Sterling Johnson in the lower class, and the life that produces the harmony of Integration by Harmond Wilks in the upper-middle class. (Chonbuk National University)