A Rat's Mass
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A Rat's Mass is a poetic, magical-realist one-act play by Adrienne Kennedy, a 20th-century African-American playwright.[1][2] The play portrays the negative aspects of the black experience in the United States by depicting two African-American children longing for a white child.[3] The play was, like many of Kennedy's plays, not aligned with the Black Arts movement, with a focus on dislocation and femaleness rather than the ideology of blackness.[4]