The white card : a play in one act

The white card A play in one act

Claudia Rankine, 1963-

Book - 2019

"A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen. The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation to respond."--Publisher's description.

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Subjects
Art and race > Drama.
Artists > Drama.
African Americans > Drama.
Race relations > Drama.
One-act plays.
Genres
One-act plays
Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press [2019]
Language
English
Main Author
Claudia Rankine, 1963- (author)
Physical Description
ix, 89 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781555978396
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

This first published play from acclaimed poet Rankine (Citizen: An American Lyric) opens three months after the 2016 presidential election. Charlotte, a black artist, joins the Spencer family and their art dealer friend for a tense dinner that touches on issues of white supremacy and white guilt, white savior syndrome, black lives, black bodies, and the beliefs in which progressive white Americans take comfort. Act 2 opens one year later, when Charlotte invites Charles Hamilton Spencer to her studio. Charles is convinced this is their first meeting since the dinner, but Charlotte soon apprises him of the subject of her latest work: a record of her public encounters with the Spencer family, challenging Spencer's idea of whiteness and the power of skin color in relation to Charlotte's experience of race. Each act in this fast-paced, thought-provoking play reads like a swift conversation, inviting readers to experience the power of whiteness from Charlotte's perspective; this reviewer can only imagine what it must feel like to see it performed. VERDICT Recommended for drama enthusiasts and all readers interested in race relations in contemporary -America.-Gricel Dominguez, Florida International Univ. Lib., Miami © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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