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Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem [1] and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen stretches the conventions of traditional lyric poetry by interweaving several forms of text and media into a collective portrait of racial relations in the United States. [2]
The poem sparked the beginning of the Black Arts Movement in poetry. [1] " Black Art" was published in The Liberator in January 1966, and subsequently re-published in numerous anthologies. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The poem is described as one of Baraka's most expressive political poems, as it uses sharp language, onomatopoeia and violence, yet it is one of ...
Coal is a collection of poetry by Audre Lorde, published in 1976. [1] It was Lorde's first collection to be released by a major publisher. [ 2 ] Lorde's poetry in Coal explored themes related to the several layers of her identity as a "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet."
[4] [5] [6] Alana Lentin, in a op-ed for ABC, cited the phrase as an example of "how denying racism reproduces its violence". [7] Deutsche Welle 's Torsten Landsberg and Rachel Stewart wrote that the refrain is "usually followed by an opinion that belies at best ignorance and at worst a deep-seated prejudice or even racially fueled hatred". [ 8 ]
Doris Davenport, sometimes styled as doris davenport (born January 29, 1949), [1] is an American writer, educator, and literary and performance poet. [2] She wrote an essay featured in This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color entitled "The Pathology of Racism: A Conversation with Third World Wimmin."
In the opinion of Margaret Ohia, [5] who researched racism in the Polish language at the University of California, the protagonist of the poem is presented as inferior to the presumably white reader. The phrase Murzynek Bambo is often used in children's name-calling when the target is a black child.
The authors of this anthology came from a variety of cultural, economic, and racial backgrounds, and their works span different genres, writing styles, and topics. All of the essays in this book are written in the first person. [11] In between those essays, there are poems, journal entries, interviews, photos, and more. [7]
In I am Joaquin, Joaquin (the narrative voice of the poem) speaks of the struggles that the Chicano people have faced in trying to achieve economic justice and equal rights in the U.S., as well as to find an identity of being part of a hybrid mestizo society. He promises that his culture will survive if all Chicano people stand proud and demand ...