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Title	:	Citizen: An American Lyric
Author	:	Claudia Rankine
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 169 pages
Published	:	October 7th 2014 by Graywolf Press
Categories	:	Poetry. Nonfiction. Race. Writing. Essays. Cultural. African American. Politics

Citizen: An American Lyric Paperback | Pages: 169 pages

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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. 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.

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Original Title:	Citizen: An American Lyric
ISBN:	1555976905 (ISBN13: 9781555976903)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Poetry (2016), T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Nominee (2015), Sister Mariella Gable Prize (2014), Forward Prize for Best Collection (2015), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry (2014) PEN Open Book Award (2015), National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2014), National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Poetry (2014), PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry (2015)

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4.5 starsI read about 40 pages of this back in September for Diverseathon, but for some reason, I really couldn't get into it then. Maybe it was that I should've have forced myself to read it in such a quick amount of time, because this story definitely warrants taking your time and digesting what it's trying to say. I continually put this off after that, citing that I was bored and didn't want to continue reading if it was going to be something painstaking.However, I brought this book home with

I feel like Citizen is one of those books everyones read in some portion. By my middling review, I definitely dont mean to take away anything from Claudia Rankines workI know it made many people more cognizant about the racial issues in this country, and thats always a great thingbut four years later, it felt a bit off-base for me. This is another book for my Beyonce/Solange/Jay-Z class, which has now moved on to the latter artists. Were reading this for our A Seat at the Table unit, which adds

This book is necessary and timely. It was timely fifty years ago. I pray it is not timely fifty years from now. Rankine takes on the realities of race in America with elegance but also rage/resignation... maybe we call it rageignation. Outstanding book.

I went to pick this up from the library and had some extra time so I started to read it. Before I knew it I had read over half of the book. It is just that good. Leaving the library I ordered a coffee at Starbucks and finished it. Now I am heading home where I will reread and really savor it. Beautiful writing which struck many cords in my memory. Who should read it? Everyone who has an interest in racial and human conditions.

Claudia Rankine zeros in on the microaggressions experienced by non-white people, particularly black females, in the United States.These kinds of books basically make me feel:Possibly the most memorable essay in here examines Serena Williams and her experiences in tennis - how she is portrayed, how she is treated on the court, her reactions and how those in turn are portrayed. Also memorable to me are the little tidbits from Rankine's experience, such as people complaining to her about what they

Rivetingly worth it for the Serena Williams section and the slices of life in the first half that so effectively/efficiently dramatize overt and less obvious instances of racism. I didn't engage to the same degree with the deeper-POV parts (prose poems) or the situation video texts toward the end I suppose because the indirect, abstracted approaches didn't shake me as much (charge me, more so; make me feel more alert, as though reading a thriller) and maybe felt more like they were being used,

Claudia Rankine is an absolute master of the written word. Her gripping accounts of racism, through prose and poetry, moved me deeply. I saw the world through her eyes, a profound experience. I loved this small piece of prose, "feeling most colored when thrown against a sharp white background." As a huge Serena Williams fan, I read with rapt attention to the expose' on Serena's plunge against that sharp white background. I felt a sense of rage that has always been there, burning. For Serena has