The convention of calling cards become entrepreneurial in the 20th century. Because the leisure class no longer wanted to admit it had time on its hands, its cards advertised not free time but the lack of it. Everybody acquired a title, and everybody was working.
From 1986 to 1990, Adrian Piper returned the calling card to the personal realm, although nobody mistook hers for its gilt-edged predecessors. As a light-skinned black woman, she found herself in conversations that participants had wrongly assumed were whites-only. Hence, her cards, via:
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, comes the cad card, via This Isn’t Happiness.
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