| Descript |
352 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
What if -- Liminal spaces I -- Evolution -- Lemonade -- Outstretched -- Daughter -- Notes on the state of whiteness -- Tiki torches -- Study on white male privilege -- Tall -- Social contract -- Violent -- Sound and fury -- Big little lies -- Ethical loneliness -- Liminal spaces II -- José Martí -- Boys will be boys -- Complicit freedoms -- Whitening -- Liminal spaces III. |
| Summary |
Claudia Rankine's 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. Rankine's questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture's 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 responding to, and with, their white male privilege; a friend's explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine's own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. Sometimes wry, often vulnerable, and always prescient, Just Us is Rankine's most intimate work, less interested in being right than being true, being together. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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United States -- Race relations -- 21st century.
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White people -- Race identity.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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Minority groups. |
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Black people.
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BIPOC. |
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Minorities.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
1644450216 (hardcover) |
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9781644450215 (hardcover) |
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