Erica Hunt on Claudia Rankines Citizen..! The very word “citizen” is a lump in the mouth, harnessed to reinforce boundaries between (or around) “you” and “me” in a country of descendants of “immigrants,” founded on democratic principles and painfully slow to introduce democratic practice, a wealthy country made rapidly prosperous through enslaved and indentured labor, a country that parcels out rights based on “citizenship” but confers them reluctantly and incompletely, and only after a fight, to a group who are among its oldest “citizens.” The United States is all of the above. lareviewofbooks.org/review/all-about-you
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:40:00 +0000
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