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Citizen, October 2014
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Citizen, October 2014
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An American Lyric
Graywolf Press
October 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
160 pages
ISBN: 1555976905
EAN: 9781555976903
Kindle: B00MLLZQ64
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Fiction Poetry
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankineβs long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Donβt Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric Claudia Rankineβs 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 TVβeverywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a personβs 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. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named βpost-raceβ society.
 Media BuzzPBS News Hour - December 4, 2014
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