Citizen
by Claudia Rankine, Allyson Johnson, Carme Manuel Cuenca · first published 2014
100% recommend
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 "Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the
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on “Summer Reading List” ↗…they reach a certain age. Not great literature, but a fun read. Although the second one is a little blah. Get In Trouble by Kelly Link - Excellent collection of fantastical yet mundane short stories. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine - Powerful exploration of race in America. I feel like I need to read it a few more times. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - Still one of my favorite authors.…
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