Bibliograph

Citizen, an American lyric, Claudia Rankine

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Citizen, an American lyric, Claudia Rankine

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

mixed forms

Main title

Citizen

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

870663869

Responsibility statement

Claudia Rankine

Sub title

an American lyric

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

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