Edmond is a one-act play written by David Mamet . It premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, on June 4, 1982. The first New York production was October 27 of the same year, at the Provincetown Playhouse . The play consists of twenty-three short scenes. In the original production, each of the actors took on multiple roles, save the two playing Edmond and his wife. Kenneth Branagh starred as Edmond in a production of the play in London in 2003.
20-728: Edmond may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Edmond (play) , a 1982 play by David Mamet Edmond (film) , a 2005 film based on the 1982 play E.d.M.O.N.D , a 2013 EP by Edmond Leung Edmond , a 2016 play by Alexis Michalik Edmond , a 2019 film adaptation of the play, written and directed by Michalik Berlin Edmond (born 1992), American YouTuber known online as Berleezy Places [ edit ] Edmond, Kansas Edmond, Oklahoma Edmonds, Washington Edmond, West Virginia Others [ edit ] Edmond (given name) Edmond (1833) ,
40-408: A three-card monte dealer of running a crooked game, the dealer and his shills beat Edmond to the ground. Increasingly convinced of the ugliness and difficulty of human existence, Edmond buys a knife from a pawnshop. He threatens a woman on a subway platform, then beats an African-American pimp who is trying to rob him, while calling him racial slurs. Invigorated by the act of violence, he goes to
60-539: A cigarette. Edmond utters a line that is nearly an exact quote of one from Hamlet : "There is a destiny that shapes our ends...rough-hew them how we may." The play ends as the two say "good night" and Edmond kisses his cellmate on the mouth good night, lying beside him in bed. Despite its critical praise, the racial content of the play, particularly the numerous slurs against African-Americans, has caused controversy at colleges and universities attempting to stage it. Racialized Racialization or ethnicization
80-432: A coffeehouse and propositions his waitress, Glenna. At her apartment, he tells her how alive beating the pimp has made him feel in a highly racialized speech. Glenna compares the feeling to the one she gets when she is acting. Edmond claims she is not a real actress because she only takes acting classes and does not actually perform for a paying audience. Edmond encourages her to be honest with herself, and to say that she
100-471: A large African-American cellmate is assigned to him. In a long philosophical speech, Edmond expresses conciliatory feelings to his cellmate and blacks in general, saying that people subconsciously desire what they fear and so whites should not try to avoid blacks. His uninterested cellmate first offers him a cigarette, and then punches him hard in the face twice. Then he threatens to kill him unless Edmond performs oral sex on him, which he does. Edmond meets with
120-437: A passenger sailing ship that sank off the coast of Ireland in 1850 Edmond, a racehorse that was the joint favourite for the 2001 Grand National See also [ edit ] Edmund (disambiguation) Edward (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Edmond . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
140-443: A priest and admits to being sodomized. Although he has reported the incident to the correctional officers, they were uninterested and simply said, "It happens." This is followed with an angry Edmond ranting about God. In the penultimate scene, Edmond appears to forgive his cellmate, and in the final scene, set a number of years later, the two ruminate on the uncertainty of life and the role of destiny in human affairs as Edmond smokes
160-481: Is a sociological concept used to describe the intent and processes by which ethnic or racial identities are systematically constructed within a society. Constructs for racialization are centered on erroneous generalizations about racial aspects of distinct groups, leading to the denial of equal societal engagement. It is a fallacy of groupism and a process of racial dominance that has lasting harmful or damaging outcomes for racialized groups. An associated term
180-474: Is not an actress but a waitress. Glenna begins to find his odd behavior disturbing and asks him to leave. An argument escalates, and Edmond kills her with the knife he has bought. Later, he hears a preacher at a mission preach that all souls can be redeemed through faith. Edmond wants to go testify to the preacher, but he is identified by the woman from the subway and arrested. He has a short reunion with his wife, who serves him with divorce papers. In prison,
200-503: Is reinforced through presupposed, stereotypical qualities which are imposed upon the racialized person by the racializer. Members of the dominant race in a society benefit from various privileges, such as white privilege in societies where people classified as white make up the dominant racial group, whether these are material or psychological, and are maintained and reproduced within social systems. Furthermore, research by Edna Bonacich, Sabrina Alimahomed Jake B. Wilson, 2008 regarding
220-463: Is self-racialization, which refers to the practice by dominant groups to justify and defend their dominant status or to deny its existence. Individually, self-racialization may not be consistent throughout one's lifetime. The process of racialization can affect newly arriving immigrants as well as their second-generation children in the United States. According to sociologist Ali R. Chaudhary,
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#1732771947923240-490: The U.S. and Europe, and underwent limited U.S. release on July 14, 2006. The plot, which has a certain fable -like quality, revolves around the titular character, Edmond Burke, a white-collar worker in New York City. After a visit to a fortune teller, he decides to leave his wife and embarks on an odyssey through New York's seedy underbelly, which takes him to two bars, a bordello , and a peep show. When he accuses
260-442: The United States is pervasive in many aspects of life including housing, education, and employment. The racialized incorporation perspective argues that regardless of the ethnic and cultural differences across immigrant groups, racial identification is the ultimate and primary principle of social organization in the United States. Because the lived experiences of Whites and Blacks in U.S. society diverge in most areas of social life,
280-418: The concept of racialized incorporation bridges the idea of assimilation with critical race studies in general and the concept of racialization in particular. While immigrants may possess specific ethnic and cultural identities associated with their countries of origin, once they arrive in the U.S., they are incorporated into a society that is largely organized along the lines of race. The racial hierarchy in
300-568: The effects of race and criminal background on employment concluded that "dominant racialized labor groups (mainly White/European workers) are in general afforded more privileges than subordinate racialized labor groups (workers of color)" Additionally, According to Chetty, Hendren, Kline, and Saez, the effect of race segregation impacts the labor market, saying "upward income mobility is significantly lower in areas with larger African American Populations". Racialization and gender can often intersect. Racialized gender-specific categories can emerge in
320-441: The fact that many individual adherents of those religions do not possess any of those physical characteristics. Marta Maria Maldonado has identified the racialization of labor to involve the segregation and appointment of workers based on perceived ethnic differences. This racialization of labor is said to produce a hierarchical arrangement which limits employee agency and mobility based on their race. The process of racialization
340-480: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edmond&oldid=1250451086 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Edmond (play) A movie based upon the play , starring William H. Macy and Julia Stiles , has been shown at some film festivals in
360-440: The process of racialization. For example, an African woman who immigrates to the United States may be viewed through stereotypes pertaining to African-American women. In Canadian politics, conservative representatives view the sociological concept as patchy. Maxime Bernier described it as "awful jargon" and argued that it contradicts the goal of creating a color-blind society. In response, liberal representatives contended that
380-491: The racialized category that immigrants and their children are incorporated into will largely determine their experiences and opportunities in the United States. The process of racialization and involuntary incorporation is a topic of research interest in the United States. Religious groups can also go through the process of racialization. Adherents of Judaism , Islam , and Sikhism can be racialized when they are portrayed as possessing certain physical characteristics, despite
400-589: The realities of racism are more pervasive. They argued that "denying the very real experiences of people who live with racism every day" only supports the status quo and avoids the responsibility of actively working to eradicate racism. In 2019, Hochman, a proponent of raciation, pointed out that the concept of racialization is often misidentified as relating to races or what constitutes a race, leading race-skeptic scholars in academia to discourage its use, while it actually pertains to how races are systemically and socially grouped for marginalization. Based on "what it does,"
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