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Citizen

  • 176 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 2014
  • 9 editions

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1 About this book

You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary movement, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating sounds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus. Hold up, did you just hear, did you just say, did you just see, did you just do that? Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition. --from back cover.

Good for readers who want: essays and poetry.

  • Race relations
  • Essays
  • Racism
  • Literary Essays
  • Poetry
  • African American authors
  • Relations raciales

2 About Claudia Rankine

Born 1963

Claudia Rankine (; born September 4, 1963) is a Jamaican-American poet, essayist, playwright, and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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