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2) Race
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Samuel French acting edition.
Language
English
Description
Two lawyers find themselves defending a wealthy white executive charged with raping a black woman. When a new legal assistant gets involved in the case, the opinions that boil beneath explode to the surface.
6) Blue/orange
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
[Revised edition].
Language
English
Description
"Christopher has been confined to a psychiatric ward for a month. He wants out. The problem is he still thinks oranges are blue. A junior psychiatrist, convinced he needs help, wants to section him. The senior consultatnt thinks it's all a question of culture: at home in Shepherd's Bush, Christopher will be amongst 'his people'. And besides, it costs taxpayers' money to keep Christopher in care. Race, madness and medical ethics collide in Joe Penhall's...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager. What goes down in the session to come is more than music. It is a riveting portrayal of black rage...of racism, of the self-hate the racism breeds, and of racial...
10) Fairview: a play
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doomed from the start: the silverware is all wrong, the carrots need chopping and the radio is on the fritz. What at first appears to be a family comedy takes a sharp, sly turn into a startling examination of deep-seated paradigms about race in America"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen, The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation...
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Five Blu-ray Special Edition.
Language
English
Description
The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Watermelon man: A loud-mouthed, bigoted white man's suburban existence is jarringly upended when he wakes to discover that he has become a black man.
Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song:...
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