Citizen, Claudia Rankine
Citizen, Claudia Rankine
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Citizen
An American Lyric

Author: Claudia Rankine

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Unabridged: 1 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/21/2015

Synopsis

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV—everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship.

About Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is the author of several books, including Just Us: An American Conversation and Citizen: An American Lyric. She is a former MacArthur Fellow and professor at Yale University, and is currently a professor of creative writing at New York University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

Do you remember that incident early in the primary campaign in 2016 when a young black woman staged a silent protest by reading a book during a Trump rally? Well, this is the book, and I think you should read it too. It covers some of the same ground as Coates' Between the World and Me, but Rankine......more

Goodreads review by Roxane

This book is necessary and timely. It was timely fifty years ago. I pray it is not timely fifty years from now. Rankine takes on the realities of race in America with elegance but also rage/resignation... maybe we call it rageignation. Outstanding book.......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich

**Update (4/6/16)** Tonight I had the privilege to attend a reading and discussion with Claudia Rankine here in Holland. It was a real treat. Especially powerful was seeing the visual elements of her book brought to life on the screen, with the video (made by her husband John Lucas), the music all m......more

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