Citizen : an American lyric / Claudia Rankine.

By:

Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2014]Description: 169 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1555976905 (pbk.)
9781555976903 (pbk.)

Uniform titles:

Works. Selections.

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

LOC classification:

PS3568 .A572 C58 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	PS3568 .A572 C58 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001297349

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168)

"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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