"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 h...

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1. Verfasser:	Rankine, Claudia 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[London] Penguin Books 2015
Schlagworte:	American essays Racism / United States United States / Race relations USA
Zusammenfassung:	"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
Beschreibung:	First published in the United States of America by Graywolf Press 2014
Beschreibung:	166 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780141981772