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Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

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This award-winning stage adaptation of Claudia Rankine's acclaimed book is 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.”

Pages: 43

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service

Release: June 30, 2014

ISBN: 0822238373

ISBN 13: 9780822238379

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

0/5 ( ratings)

This award-winning stage adaptation of Claudia Rankine's acclaimed book is 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.”

Pages: 43

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service

Release: June 30, 2014

ISBN: 0822238373

ISBN 13: 9780822238379

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