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You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary movement, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating sounds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus. Hold up, did you just hear, did you just say, did you just see, did you just do that? Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition. --from back cover
"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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Race relations, Poetry, Essays, Racism, American essays, American poetry, African American authors, Literature, Amerikanisches Englisch, Fiction, Prosagedicht, Poetry (poetic works by one author), nyt:relationships=2014-11-09, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Racisme, Relations raciales, LITERARY COLLECTIONS, Civil Rights & Citizenship, Black & Asian Studies, Literary Essays, Social discrimination & inequalityEdition | Availability |
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Ciutadà: Poema líric nord-americà
Dec 27, 2018, Institució Alfons el Magnànim
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Citizen: An American Lyric
October 7, 2014, Graywolf Press
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