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"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."--Publisher information.
American essays. --- Amerikanisches Englisch. --- Prosagedicht. --- Racism --- United States --- Race relations.
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Social problems --- Sociology of minorities --- Race --- Racism --- Whiteness --- Book --- Experiences
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Social problems --- Sociology of minorities --- Race --- Racism --- Whiteness --- Book --- Experiences
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"At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences? Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light, Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers - each disrupting the false comfort of spaces where our public and private lives intersect, like the airport, the theatre, the dinner party and the voting booth - and urges us to enter into the conversations which could offer the only humane pathways through this moment of division. Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, and to breach the silence, guilt and violence that surround whiteness. Brilliantly arranging essays, images and poems along with the voices and rebuttals of others, it counterpoints Rankine's own text with facing-page notes and commentary, and closes with a bravura study of women confronting the political and cultural implications of dyeing their hair blonde."--Publisher's description
White people --- African Americans --- Whites --- African Americans --- Blacks --- Race Relations --- Race Factors --- Social Conditions --- History, 21st Century --- Race identity --- Social conditions --- United States --- United States --- Race relations
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A thought-provoking mix of poetry, creative manifesto and criticism.
American poetry --- Women --- Écrits de femmes américains. --- Femmes --- Poésie américaine --- Anthologie. --- Frauenlyrik. --- American poetry. --- Women. --- Women authors. --- Geschichte 1950-2002. --- 2000-2099. --- USA. --- United States. --- American poetry -- 20th century. --- American poetry -- 21st century. --- American poetry -- Women authors. --- Women -- United States -- Poetry. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- American literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Women authors --- POESIE AMERICAINE --- FEMMES --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- ETATS-UNIS --- POESIE --- 21E SIECLE
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The ideal introduction to eleven of today's most engaging women poets
American poetry --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Women authors.
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"Emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and activism, focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic, racial, and gender subjectivities. Rather than consider poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this volume's poets create spaces, forms, and modes for entering the public sphere, contesting injustices, and reimagining the contemporary" --
Poets, American. --- Political poetry, American. --- American poetry --- American political poetry --- American poets
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