Claudia RankinesCitizenchanged the conversationJust Usurges 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 Usis 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 spacesthe airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting boothwhere 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 friends 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 Rankines own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word.

Sometimes wry, often vulnerable, and always prescient,Just Usis Rankines most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, being together.

• Hardcover:352 pages
• Publisher:Graywolf Press (September 8, 2020)
• Language:English
• ISBN-10:1644450216
• ISBN-13:9781644450215
• UNSPSC Code:55101500
• Product Dimensions:6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight:1.7 pounds