**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' disagree
The white card: a play
โ Scribed by Claudia Rankine
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Year
- 2018;2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 104 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ 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...
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