Citizen: An American Lyric
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (535 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00WAFQ1OM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 443 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship.. Claudia Rankine's bold new audiobook recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-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 cumulative stresses come to bear on
Emily Sachs said A Master Class in the Second Person POV. This book gave me a headache by the end, which only goes to show how powerful it is. I read this book for an individual class project where we had to pick an element of craft to study and I chose Point of View. Rankine uses the rare second-person POV in this book and manages to do so masterfully. Something about this form forces you into the shoes of the characters in a way that mirrors their own imprisonment in their bodies. This is a wonderful read that opens your mind to the daily struggles of so many people that some of us are fortunate enough to forget about.. The persistence of this pattern even in face of the distracting presence of an African-American president who functions both as Reading Claudia Rankine On RaceWe white people have lots to learn about racism in America no matter how progressive our attitudes toward race. I realized this some years ago when I found Toni Morrison’s Beloved so grimly illuminating in depicting the cruelty experienced after the abolition of slavery by our African American fellow citizens left in a malicious shadow land of unknowing, a reflection of white indifference. It made me abruptly realize that I had never effectively grasped the intensities of hurt and pain of even close black friends afflicted or threatened with affliction a. An Essential Book! D. Diggins Lean and incisive prose. This book jolts, sears and lingers It's meditative. The section on Serena Williams (the meaning of the "black body" in American culture.) alone is worth the price of the book.