Just Us: An American Conversation Pdf Summary Reviews By Claudia Rankine

Just Us: An American Conversation Pdf Summary

Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation–Just Us urges all of us into it

As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history.

Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces–the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth–where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments, beliefs, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect.

This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to, and with, their white male privilege; a friend’s explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine’s own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word.

Sometimes wry, often vulnerable, and always prescient, Just Us is Rankine’s most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, being together. 

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About Claudia Rankine Author of Just Us: An American Conversation Pdf Book

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Claudia Rankine the Author of Just Us: An American Conversation Pdf Book is an American poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City.

Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including “Citizen: An American Lyric” and “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely”; two plays including “The White Card,” which premiered in February 2018 (ArtsEmerson and American Repertory Theater) and will be published with Graywolf Press in 2019, and “Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue”; as well as numerous video collaborations. She is also the editor of several anthologies including “The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind.” In 2016, she cofounded The Racial Imaginary Institute. Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, United States Artists and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Just Us: An American Conversation pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Graywolf Press; Illustrated edition (September 8, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1644450216
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1644450215
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.95 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.52 x 1.06 x 9.16 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #408,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #300 in Black & African American Poetry (Books)
  • #1,406 in Essays (Books)
  • #1,880 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
  • Customer Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars    525 ratings

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