1.
Citizen :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
169 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Production / Publication Information
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014]
Summary
"Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named 'post-race' society."--from publisher's description.
Call Number
811.54 RAN
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781555976903
2.
Citizen :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
43 pages ; 20 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : Dramatists Play Service Inc., [2018]
Summary
A searing, poetic riff on race in America, fusing prose, poetry, movement, music, and the visual image. Snapshots, vignettes, on the acts of everyday racism. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams, online, on TV -- everywhere, all the time. Those did-that-really-just-happen-did-they-really-just-say-that slurs that happen every day and enrage in the moment and later steep poisonously in the mind. And, of course, those larger incidents that become national or international firestorms. As Rankine writes, "This is how you are a citizen."--Publisher's description.
Call Number
812.6 SAC
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
ISBN
9780822238379
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