Claudia Rankine is the author of several books, including Just Us: An American Conversation and Citizen: An American Lyric. She is a former MacArthur Fellow and professor at Yale University, and is currently a professor of creative writing at New York University.
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Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the c... SEE MORE