CBR 13 Bingo: UnCannon Sometimes I read a book that is so deep it’s hard to put it into words for other people to understand. The only response is a directive: “You should read this.” This is how I feel about Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. Rankine’s book is about not just her experience as a Black woman—although it is that as well—but what it’s like to be Black in a racist world, though that is a reductive summary that doesn’t do justice to […]
“Just Getting Along Shouldn’t Be an Ambition”
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
