Description
In this genre-defying blend of poetry, essay, visual art, research, and personal reflection, Claudia Rankine examines the everyday mechanics of race in America. Through encounters at airports, dinner parties, on airplanes, and in other seemingly ordinary spaces, she reveals how microaggressions, privilege, politeness, and “colorblindness” shape both public life and private relationships. Engaging with the 2016 election, whiteness, violence, and the difficult possibility of solidarity, the book makes room for disagreement, vulnerability, and the voices of others. Written with intellectual rigor, humility, humor, and compassion, it is an urgent call to move beyond comfortable conversation toward justice and meaningful human connection.
Available Editions
paperback
Graywolf Press
Published Sep 7, 2021
360 pages
ISBN: 9781644450635
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Details
First Published
2020
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Just Us by Claudia Rankine.