Citizen
An American Lyric
Ranked #4 in Citizenship, Ranked #12 in Poetry — see more rankings.
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... more
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... more
Reviews and Recommendations
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Cheryl Strayed A really important book for us to be reading right now. (Source)
Jeremy Noel-Tod Obviously, it’s been admired and acclaimed, but I do feel the general reception of it has underplayed its artfulness. Its technical subtlety and overall arrangement has been neglected, because it has been classified as a kind of documentary work. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Citizen is ranked in the following categories:
- #43 in African American
- #79 in Awarded
- #51 in Black Author
- #27 in Civics
- #38 in Essays
- #79 in Graduate School
- #91 in Insightful
- #32 in Justice
- #65 in NPR
- #23 in Racism
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