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The white card: a play in one act

✍ Scribed by Rankine, Claudia

Publisher: Graywolf Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 104 KB
Category: Fiction
City: Minneapolis, Minnesota
ISBN-13: 9782018947089

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen
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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.
--from the introduction by Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine's first published play, The White Card , poses the essential question: Can American society progress if whiteness remains invisible?

Composed of two scenes, the play opens with a dinner party thrown by Virginia and Charles, an influential Manhattan couple, for the up-and-coming artist Charlotte. Their conversation about art and representations of race spirals toward the devastation of Virginia and...

✦ Subjects

Whites -- Race identity

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