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Possibly the most memorable essay in here examines Serena Williams and her experiences in tennis - how she is portrayed, how she is treated on the court, her reactions and how those in turn are portrayed. There is such a thing as an idea whose time has come. This is that idea.' - James Perry, Board Member, B Lab Global, and Founding Partner, Snowball Investment Management Citizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive – as individuals, as organisations, as nations, even as a species. O'Rourke, Kenna (2018-10-23). "On Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine (Reviewed by Kenna O'Rourke)". The Adroit Journal . Retrieved 2022-01-28. David Grayson, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield University School of Management and co-author of The Sustainable Business Handbook
Why read fiction when factual stories are so amazing? This is a major book by an academic but it works well both for a knowledgeable curious reader and someone keen to learn about the amazing events in France between 1789 and 1793. Schama knows how to tell a tale (an overly academic `historiographical' approach could ruin this story) . In the same way that you would say goodbye at the end of a good novel, you miss this massive book when you finish it. Every great transformation requires a new story. A story that reveals new possibilities and points toward an optimistic alternative to the current situation. Citizens presents just such a story.'NCP have partnered with organisations and institutions including the Co-op, The Body Shop, National Trust, BBC, European Central Bank and many more. Nichola Raihani, Professor of Evolution and Behaviour, University College London, and author, The Social Instinct Because when our institutions treat people as creative, empowered creatures rather than consumers, everything changes. He points out that, unsurprisingly, the revolution was started at the Palais-Royale, Versailles by the inflationary bread prices causing not just a “dearth but of famine”. Against the splendour, wealth and excess of Versailles, people starved. Being able to chart the lives of crowned heads and the newly elevated “citizens” is a fundamental strength of the book. In line at the drugstore it's finally your turn, and then it's not as he walks in front of you and puts his things on the counter. The cashier says, Sir, she was next. When he turns to you he is truly surprised.
This is a collection of small moments and media-saturated ones: the injustices experienced by Serena Williams on the tennis court or Zinedine Zidane on the soccer pitch are repeated in the intimate moments when stranger or colleague or friend lets slip a slight or blurts an ignorance they may not even recognize as racist, because they just can't see. The face that fills the hoodie is invisible. Sixty years after Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and America has yet to accept an identity for that space. We allow. We create. We deny. We control. We appropriate. We define. But we don't see. We don't hear. A primary component of the Revolution, which sought "liberty, justice, and fraternity", was de-Christianization of France. A lesson Schama's and Hibbert's books provide is that when men and women seek social reform by depending on "reason" absent faith in God, then the result of that reform will more often be despotism.Citizens is so exciting and full of energy from the beginning that I wanted to read the whole thing immediately. A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century.'
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