Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen An American Lyric”, symbolizes microaggression that African American people experience on a day to day base in society which situates them as different. For example, “A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch. You are visiting her campus. In the café you both order the Caesar salad. This overlap is not the beginning of anything because she immediately points out that she, her father, her grandfather, and you, all attended the same college. She wanted her son to go there as well, but because of affirmative action or minority something—she is not sure what they are calling it these days and weren’t they supposed to get rid of it?— her son wasn’t accepted. You are not sure if you are meant to apologize for this failure of your alma mater’s legacy program; instead you ask where he ended up. The prestigious school she mentions doesn’t seem to assuage her irritation. This exchange, in effect, ends your lunch. The salads arrive.” (Citizen 13) Furthermore, Rankine’s usages of ‘you’ allows the reader to view “Citizen” in a different lens more specifically as a African American citizens that has experiences microaggression and/or racism in society. This shows that society view people of color as different.
Reflection:
I had a hard time writing this assertion. Personality, the part of my assertion I liked at all was the first sentence – the into paragraph-. I tend to get weak after that an become repetitive. I referred to my previous assertion, the rubric, and the ‘Whats is an Assertion’ half sheet.
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