Black Lives/White Backgrounds: Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric and Critical Race Theory.
How do you criticise a hierarchical racial formation that is rendered nearly invisible by its colour (white) and positioning (background) in the contemporary, so-called colour-blind or post-racial US? The reading of Claudia Rankine’sCitizen: An American Lyricthat this essay will undertake seeks to o...
| Publicado en: | Comparative American Studies Vol. 15; no. 1/2; pp. 54 - 72 |
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