Day 4

Citizen: An American Lyric Lesson Plan

Discussion of Thought Questions

  1. 1

    What are some of the messages you can glean from Citizen so far?

    Students will likely list several messages. One of the clearest messages of Sections IV and V are that Black people are consistently straddling the line between invisibility and hypervisibility. Another is that racism enters the bodies of people of color and stays there. This is the cause of the sighs and the moans. There are studies that support the idea that racism can make people of color physically ill. Another message is that microaggressions can lead to an understandable anger that is largely considered unacceptable. Microaggressions are also a kind of systemic racism that is hard to speak out against....

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