![]() This is a book of collected vignettes, from Rankine’s personal experiences and those of her friends and family, of casual racism and times when she or a loved one was reduced to the color of their skin. Citizen: An American Lyric, published in 2014, came to readers shortly after the Black Lives Matter movement began.Ĭitizen is composed of poems, lyrics, artwork, and photographs that explore bigotry, microaggressions, and systemic racism. Our April California Book Club pick remains just as striking as when it was first released. “I can’t say that my relationship to the book has changed that much.” And the relationships readers form with the book have not changed either. ![]() ![]() Ten years after writing Citizen, unfortunately I think the conditions that made the book necessary for me to write remain relevant,” Claudia Rankine recently told Alta Journal. ![]()
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