The Making of Citizen with Claudia Rankine
- When:
- February 04, 2025
- Time:
- 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
- Category:
- Faculty and Staff Events First Year Experience Student Events
- Location:
- Online via Teams
- Details:
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Claudia Rankine's bold 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 on 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.
This is the re-scheduled Fall Friday from Nov. 8, 2024, for One Book, One Regis. Please join us!
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