Just us : an American conversation / Claudia Rankine.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781644450215
- ISBN: 1644450216
- Physical Description: 341 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | What if -- Liminal spaces I -- Evolution -- Lemonade -- Outstreched -- 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 -- Jos©♭ Mart©Ư -- Boys will be boys -- Complicit freedoms -- Whitening -- Liminal spaces III. |
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Subject: | African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century. United States > Race relations > 21st century. Whites > Race identity. United States > Social conditions > 21st century. |
Genre: | Essays. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pease Public Library | 305.896 RANKINE
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34598000751464 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Just Us : An American Conversation
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Summary
Just Us : An American Conversation
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION 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 in being true, being together.