Citizen Citizen

Citizen

An American Lyric

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Publisher Description

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry *
* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *

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A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

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. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2014
October 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
160
Pages
PUBLISHER
Graywolf Press
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
17.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Sansound ,

spiritual

I will be honest, the style of writing left me ignorant may times but I was able to feel the author through these episodes. The stories leave one to support the presentations with stories or experiences of one’s own, as a cosign of sorts. Effective.

Maddog1700 ,

Moving & Heartbreaking

Wonderfully written. A devastating story of inequality and prejudice People of Color face in the United States. 10/10 would recommend.

laurenlefa ,

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Well written and thought provoking

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