Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Date and Time: October 17, 2018, 7:00 PM CT
Location:
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 SW 10th Ave, Topeka
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Part of TALK series, Civil Rights Revisited
Discussion Leader: Dennis Etzel
This poetic work crosses boundaries in its sojourn into American race relations in the twenty-first century. Rankine turns a critical eye to everything from tennis superstar Serena Williams to everyday microaggressions on the subway. As one of the blurbs on the back of her book reads, "[Citizen] lovingly embraces and articulates the trauma and contradictions of what happens when one person is spat upon and another person spits."
Sponsored by: Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
For more information about this event, please contact:
Miranda Ericsson Kendall
(785) 580-4476
http://www.tscpl.org