Citizen An American Lyric Claudia Rankine by Claudia Rankine 9781555976903, 1555976905 instant download after payment.

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.

“Rankine brilliantly pushes poetry’s forms to disarm readers and circumvent our carefully constructed defence mechanisms against the hint of possibly being racist ourselves.”  -  The New York Times Book Review

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.

"[Citizen] is an especially vital book for this moment in time... As Rankine’s brilliant, disabusing work, always aware of its ironies, reminds us, ‘moving on’ is not synonymous with ‘leaving behind.”  -  The New Yorker

"Part poetry collection, part memoir, part book-length critical essay, Citizen takes risks other books wouldn’t dare, and it reads like no other title on this list. A dazzling meditation on invisibility, blackness, and America.”  -  Slate

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.