Just Us - An American Conversation - Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine

Category: Political

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Claudia Rankines 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. Rankines questions disrupt the false comfort of our cultures 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 r