There’s a lot to unpack here and I wish it was longer. I love Claudia Rankine’s work.

The moment I heard of this play I knew I had to read it: Claudia Rankine's The White Card is a moving and revelatory distillation of racial divisions as experienced in the white spaces of the living room, the art gallery, the theater, and the imagination itself. The play is composed of two scenes: it opens with a dinner party thrown by Virginia and Charles, an influential Manhattan couple, for the up-and-coming artist Charlotte. Their conversation about art and representations of race spirals to...

I am not white so none of this play was new to me. ...It's important and significant that someone with a loud of clout is giving voice to the opinions, judgments, and insights of this play. They really are quite obvious though, to anyone who has ever lived as a colored, or poor, or otherwise disenfranchised person in America. This play, Rankine, forces into clear focus on the issue of race -- on blackness vs whiteness in particular. I think I understand her choice in presenting race in this star...

This is a very difficult work for me to review, since it tackles an important and rarely discussed issue (basically the blindness white people have to their own privilege, even when they believe they abhor racism), so it gets kudos for that alone. My problem is that Rankine, a well-respected poet, hasn't really written a play. She has written a debate, complete with bullet points, footnotes (people are constantly bringing up works of art or literature and then having to EXPLAIN what they are abo...

rankine has the answers. who will listen?

What happens when you combine two strawmen, a wine mom, an overly-online teenager and an obvious self-insert? A boring, tedious, unimaginative play with no discernable audience beyond self-flagellating white people who love guilt porn, New York and art references.

There is alot to unpack in this play. I may even need to reread it. The dialogue is sharp and rich. I would definitely like to see this on stage.

Unsurprisingly provocative, smart, intense. There is so much to absorb here

This work was anything but subtle. In this short play, Claudia Rankine lays bare the ugly insidiousness that is American racism, and the shape that it takes in spaces that purport to be sympathetic and progressive. We are gathered at a posh dinner party in Tribeca where homeowners Charles and Virginia are entertaining their guest Charlotte, a Black artist whose work on racism has piqued their interest. There's also Eric, an art dealer, who acts as a liaison between Charlotte and the family. Char...

lot to process, also didn't get the end

I wish I had gotten to see this when it was performed last year. The White Card was created in response to a question that a white man asked Rankine at an event. When he didn't like her answer, he became critical of her. This play deals with whiteness and how even people who believe their intentions to be good can become defensive when they are challenged. The cast of characters was intentionally produced to portray a range of white people believing that they're "helping" Charlotte, a black arti...

impeccably written as always! I gasped aloud multiple times.

Is The White Card predictable? Well, yes. Mostly if you are familiar with the real-life versions of these "well-meaning" white liberals. Then, of course, the outcome of the play and its insufferable conversations aren't all that surprising. There were moments when I did want some element of the unexpected, but I backtracked by asking myself whether anything about anti-black racism should even be surprising anymore. I mean, who has the privilege of insulating themselves from the shock of it? Who

rarely do i feel this speechless after finishing a book. i dont read a lot of plays so im not sure what is considered mainstream in this genre. i didnt know how to really go about writing this review because its so hard for me to talk about books i love, but i took a look at the reviews to get some ideas on how i should tackle this. some of you missed the entire point of the play. i get not liking something but i think the way in which certain people missed the point is why works like the white

Powerful look at the white savior complexThis play really digs into when white people think the are being helpful and empathetic but are actually fetishizing Black violence and death. By only concentrating and paying attention to Black people when they are victims, we dehumanize them and turn their pain into our cause. I think this is something we need to talk about more, especially in white communities that are now, more than ever before, getting involved in the Black Lives Matter movement.

As a look at/discussion of systemic racism in America, this is powerful and a fascinating concept. There were parts where I felt that the examples of microagressions happening were way overstated to where it could be awkward and clunky on stage. Loved the art included.

It's an interesting plays that I think brings up a very interesting considerations surrounding race but more importantly the consideration of one's own race in that whole mix. I was stuck between a 3 to a 4 and went for the 4. I do think it is written very well and I think the topics are interesting to think about, but idk, part of this feels incomplete to me; maybe because the ideas don't have a strong perspective offered by anything individual character. You can can surmise what they think but...

What and who was on display and what exactly were the pressure points? Those are two questions I find myself still grappling with that can help me further understand the play. I found multiple moments in the play where it seemed like the show and artifice were the main subject matter. The careful orchestration of seating and the white box/room (which are just the staging aspects), as well as the constant mention of different works of art (Between the World and Me, Philando Castille, projections

I read The White Card by Claudia Rankine yesterday, all in one sitting, for my #toreadinaday book of the weekend.This play depicts a dinner hosted by a white couple who want to buy the latest collection of art by a Black artist. I found it really powerful in that just by portraying a dinner party and the imagined conversations in the first act, I was left with so much to reflect on. I’m left thinking about white saviorism, appropriation, microaggressions, white people commodifying blackness, and...

This is a short play that explores art in a traditional gallery setting, collecting art, and how contemporary American Black art and the artists who make it fit into that kind of explicitly normative and white discourse. It engages with several specific pieces of art, which are reproduced in the book, and which are shown to the audience during the play. I have seen people complain in the Goodreads reviews that the dialog is too formal; I felt that was part of the point. This is kind of the rever...