Citizen

Claudia Rankine’s highly anticipated follow-up to her groundbreaking book, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, is a thought-provoking reflection on race. Her bold new book, Citizen, chronicles the mounting acts of racial aggression that pervade twenty-first-century daily life and the media. These instances range from minor slights and slips of the tongue to intentional offenses in various settings such as classrooms, supermarkets, homes, tennis courts with Serena Williams, soccer fields with Zinedine Zidane, and online spaces. These cumulative stresses can undermine one’s ability to speak, act, and even survive. Rankine asserts that our ability to be addressed is linked to the state of our belonging, which shapes our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. Through a blend of essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary society, which is often hailed as being “post-race.”

作者简介

ClaudiaRankineisanAmericanpoetandplaywrightbornin1963andraisedinKingston,JamaicaandNewYorkCity.Rankineistheauthoroffivecollectionsofpoetry,including"Citizen:AnAmericanLyric"and"Don’tLetMeBeLonely";twoplaysincluding"TheWhiteCard,"whichpremieredinFebruary2018(ArtsEmersonandAmericanRepertoryTheater)andwillbepublishedwith...