![]() ![]() A successful African American woman has taken her seat by the window on the airplane, when a white woman with her child approaches the same row. She hates feeling invisible.Īnother scenario, told in the first person, is offered to the reader. The black girl feels even worse about herself than before. ![]() Thinking that she will be nice to the black girl for allowing her to cheat, Mary Catherine tries to compliment her, but it comes out more as a racial slur. ![]() The black girl allows Mary Catherine to cheat off of her. ![]() Sister Evelyn, her teacher, also gets a name. She is not given a name in the story, but the white girl that cheats off of her is named Mary Catherine. Initially, the book begins with a young 12-year-old black girl who is attending a Catholic school. Taken as a collective whole, the work exposes the inadequacies that still exist globally, and not just in the U.S., as well as offers a hope for the future. The author writes in a free form, half poem, half prose format, which also includes pictures from current events, historical events, and historical civil rights emblems and paintings. Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine, is a work in progress (it's been updated many times now). ![]()
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