Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Part of TALK series, Civil Rights Revisited
Discussion Leader: Dennis Etzel

This poetic work crosses boundaries in its sojourn into American race relations in the twenty-first century. Rankine turns a critical eye to everything from tennis superstar Serena Williams to everyday microaggressions on the subway. As one of the blurbs on the back of her book reads, "[Citizen] lovingly embraces and articulates the trauma and contradictions of what happens when one person is spat upon and another person spits."

Sponsored by: Newton Public Library

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Daniel Eells
(316) 283-2890
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