* 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 *
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:**
The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los
Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York,
Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . .
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.
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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.
