Just Us Claudia Rankine by Claudia Rankine 9781644451199, 1644451190, B089YVN2PQ instant download after payment.

"Audacious, revelatory, devastating."  -  Robin DiAngelo 

At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences? Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light, 

Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers - each disrupting the false comfort of spaces where our public and private lives intersect, like the airport, the theatre, the dinner party and the voting booth - and urges us to enter into the conversations which could offer the only humane pathways through this moment of division. Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together and to breach the silence, guilt and violence that surround whiteness. 

Brilliantly arranging essays, images and poems along with the voices and rebuttals of others, it counterpoints Rankine's own text with facing-page notes and commentary. Wry, vulnerable and prescient, this is Rankine's most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, and being together.

"Just Us is about intimacy. Rankine is making an appeal for real closeness. She’s advocating for candour as the pathway to achieving universal humanity and authentic love ... Rankine is vulnerable, too...It's naked and confessional, deeply moving and, ultimately, inspirational... Claudia Rankine may be the most human human I’ve ever encountered. Her inner machinations and relentless questioning would exhaust most people."  -  Michael Kleber-Diggs, The Star Tribune