The White Card
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The White Card is a play by Claudia Rankine that interrogates whiteness, privilege, and the politics of race through a tense dinner-party confrontation between a Black artist and a wealthy white art-collecting couple.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The White Card canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The White Card Context triple: [Claudia Rankine, notableWork, The White Card]
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A.
Carte Blanche
Carte Blanche is a James Bond continuation novel by Jeffery Deaver that reboots the iconic spy into a modern-day setting.
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B.
On White II
On White II is an abstract painting by Wassily Kandinsky that exemplifies his pioneering use of color, geometric forms, and spiritual abstraction in early 20th-century art.
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C.
Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a long-running shared-universe superhero anthology series, primarily edited and co-created by George R. R. Martin, that explores an alternate history shaped by an alien virus granting people extraordinary powers.
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D.
Fifty-Two Pickup
Fifty-Two Pickup is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that follows a Detroit businessman ensnared in a blackmail scheme that spirals into violence and betrayal.
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E.
The Card
The Card is a comic novel by English writer Arnold Bennett that follows the ambitious rise of the charming and enterprising Edward Henry Machin in the fictional Five Towns.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The White Card Target entity description: The White Card is a play by Claudia Rankine that interrogates whiteness, privilege, and the politics of race through a tense dinner-party confrontation between a Black artist and a wealthy white art-collecting couple.
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A.
Carte Blanche
Carte Blanche is a James Bond continuation novel by Jeffery Deaver that reboots the iconic spy into a modern-day setting.
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B.
On White II
On White II is an abstract painting by Wassily Kandinsky that exemplifies his pioneering use of color, geometric forms, and spiritual abstraction in early 20th-century art.
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C.
Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a long-running shared-universe superhero anthology series, primarily edited and co-created by George R. R. Martin, that explores an alternate history shaped by an alien virus granting people extraordinary powers.
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D.
Fifty-Two Pickup
Fifty-Two Pickup is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that follows a Detroit businessman ensnared in a blackmail scheme that spirals into violence and betrayal.
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E.
The Card
The Card is a comic novel by English writer Arnold Bennett that follows the ambitious rise of the charming and enterprising Edward Henry Machin in the fictional Five Towns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | play ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | contemporary American theatre ⓘ |
| associatedTopic | Black Lives Matter era discourse ⓘ |
| author | Claudia Rankine ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | widely discussed in contemporary theatre criticism ⓘ |
| dialogueStyle | conversational ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | confrontation-driven drama ⓘ |
| explores |
liberal white complicity in racism
ⓘ
the commodification of Black suffering in art ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Black artist
ⓘ
wealthy white art-collecting couple ⓘ |
| firstProductionCompany |
American Repertory Theater
ⓘ
ArtsEmerson ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
ethical responsibilities of white spectators
ⓘ
interpersonal dynamics around race ⓘ limits of dialogue about race ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
political theatre ⓘ |
| hasForm | two-scene structure ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
printed book
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
aestheticization of racial violence
ⓘ
family tensions around race ⓘ white liberalism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
art and representation
ⓘ
race politics ⓘ racism ⓘ white privilege ⓘ whiteness ⓘ |
| premiereCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| premiereLocation | Boston ⓘ |
| premiereYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| publicationForm | play script ⓘ |
| publisher | Graywolf Press ⓘ |
| questionedConcept |
collecting trauma as cultural capital
ⓘ
colorblindness ⓘ performative allyship ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Citizen: An American Lyric ⓘ |
| setting | a dinner party ⓘ |
| structure | one-act play ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult theatre audiences ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | contemporary United States ⓘ |
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