Resources to learn more about Claudia Rankine's Citizen
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READING GUIDES &
BOOK CIRCLE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS for CITIZEN
Reader Resources: On Citizen (from the National Endowment for the Arts)
Discussion Questions about Citizen (from the National Endowment for the Arts)
Discussion Questions about Citizen (from PBS)
Discussion Questions about Citizen (pdf from Graywolf Press)
Discussion Questions about Citizen (from the National Endowment for the Arts)
Discussion Questions about Citizen (from PBS)
Discussion Questions about Citizen (pdf from Graywolf Press)
Podcasts & REcorded Interviews
"The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning" (New York Times, Daily Podcast)
Tin House Interview (Between the Covers Podcast)
Claudia Rankine Lecture Broadcast (Literary Arts)
"What Does It Mean To Choose To Dye Your Hair Blonde?" (NPR)
A Conversation with Claudia Rankine (Slate Magazine)
Review of Citizen (NPR)
Claudia Rankine on the Realities of Everyday Racism (NPR Weekend Edition)
Tin House Interview (Between the Covers Podcast)
Claudia Rankine Lecture Broadcast (Literary Arts)
"What Does It Mean To Choose To Dye Your Hair Blonde?" (NPR)
A Conversation with Claudia Rankine (Slate Magazine)
Review of Citizen (NPR)
Claudia Rankine on the Realities of Everyday Racism (NPR Weekend Edition)
Videos
Situation 5, by Claudia Rankine and John Lucas (see pages 88- of Citizen)
See Situation Series: Claudia Rankine and John Lucas
Rankine Reads from Citizen (Williams College)
On Poets Writing Prose (Academy of American Poets)
Claudia Rankine Speaks about Citizen (PBS NewsHour)
2014 National Book Award Finalists Reading
See Situation Series: Claudia Rankine and John Lucas
Rankine Reads from Citizen (Williams College)
On Poets Writing Prose (Academy of American Poets)
Claudia Rankine Speaks about Citizen (PBS NewsHour)
2014 National Book Award Finalists Reading
Articles, Interviews, Reviews, Poems
On new book: Just Us
Claudia Rankine's Just Us Prompts a Conversation All Americans Need to Have (O Magazine)
More Recent Articles
"How a natural disaster prompted this poet to focus on race in America" (PBS)
"Weather" - Poet Claudia Rankine Writes about the Climate in America at this Moment (New York Times)
"Claudia Rankine Looks at White Privilege from 35,000 Feet" (New York Times)
"I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked" (New York Times)
"The Body, Vibrating, Is ‘What Remains’" (New York Times)
"The Pursuit of Blondness" (The Atlantic)
Claudia Rankine's Course "Constructions of Whiteness" (The College Fix)
"Why I’m spending $625,000 to study whiteness" (The Guardian)
From 2014 and 2015 (When the Book Citizen Was First Published)
"The Meaning of Serena Williams" (New York Times)
"The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning" (New York Times Magazine)
"A New Way of Writing About Race" (The New York Review of Books)
"Rankine on the Violent Deaths of Black Men" (PBS NewsHour)
"Blackness in the White Imagination" (The Guardian)
"The History Behind the Feeling" (The Spectacle)
On Racism and White Supremacy, Art, and Literature
"On White Supremacy, Art and America" (Canadian Art)
"On Whiteness and the Literary Imaginary" (LitHub)
“In Our Way: Racism in Creative Writing" (Writer's Chronicle)
Interview (Paris Review)
Claudia Rankine's Just Us Prompts a Conversation All Americans Need to Have (O Magazine)
More Recent Articles
"How a natural disaster prompted this poet to focus on race in America" (PBS)
"Weather" - Poet Claudia Rankine Writes about the Climate in America at this Moment (New York Times)
"Claudia Rankine Looks at White Privilege from 35,000 Feet" (New York Times)
"I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked" (New York Times)
"The Body, Vibrating, Is ‘What Remains’" (New York Times)
"The Pursuit of Blondness" (The Atlantic)
Claudia Rankine's Course "Constructions of Whiteness" (The College Fix)
"Why I’m spending $625,000 to study whiteness" (The Guardian)
From 2014 and 2015 (When the Book Citizen Was First Published)
"The Meaning of Serena Williams" (New York Times)
"The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning" (New York Times Magazine)
"A New Way of Writing About Race" (The New York Review of Books)
"Rankine on the Violent Deaths of Black Men" (PBS NewsHour)
"Blackness in the White Imagination" (The Guardian)
"The History Behind the Feeling" (The Spectacle)
On Racism and White Supremacy, Art, and Literature
"On White Supremacy, Art and America" (Canadian Art)
"On Whiteness and the Literary Imaginary" (LitHub)
“In Our Way: Racism in Creative Writing" (Writer's Chronicle)
Interview (Paris Review)
resources For Teachers & Discussion Facilitators
Citizen in the Classroom (from Graywolf Press)
On Teaching Claudia Rankine's Citizen, by Suzi F. Garcia (University of Arizona)
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Editing Claudia Rankine's Citizen (Art Works Blog, 4/14/2017)
How to Read and Talk About Poetry (Art Works Blog, 12/2/2016)
On Teaching Claudia Rankine's Citizen, by Suzi F. Garcia (University of Arizona)
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Editing Claudia Rankine's Citizen (Art Works Blog, 4/14/2017)
How to Read and Talk About Poetry (Art Works Blog, 12/2/2016)
Claudia Rankine on Racism in Education
"We have to change the narrative in our heads that doesn't acknowledge that 'Segregation Forever' was part of the ideology that reared us and put in place the institutions in which we were taught and in which we teach. The theorist Elijah Anderson writes in his essay entitled, “The White Space,” “The wider society is still replete with overwhelmingly white neighborhoods, restaurants, schools, universities, workplaces, churches, and other associations, courthouses, and cemeteries, a situation that reinforces a normative sensibility in settings in which black people (and I will add many other people of color) are typically absent, not expected, or marginalized when present…. For whites… the settings are generally regarded as unremarkable, or as normal, taken-for-granted reflections of civil society.” And this contemporary reality is starkly reflected inside many of our academic institutions. Simply, when these spaces were set up they didn’t take into account people they didn't allow to enter. I originally wrote “people they didn't expect to enter” and then I remembered the history of my own marginalized presence in these walls. Yearly, these spaces, our spaces, reinstate themselves in ways that reflect their white supremacist substructure."
Books & Web Resources by claudia rankine
Author Website
The Racial Imaginary Institute
Founded by poet Claudia Rankine, a cultural laboratory in which the racial imaginaries of our time and place are engaged, read, countered, contextualized, and demystified. Read More
The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race and the Life of the Mind (Book, edited collection)
The Racial Imaginary Institute
Founded by poet Claudia Rankine, a cultural laboratory in which the racial imaginaries of our time and place are engaged, read, countered, contextualized, and demystified. Read More
The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race and the Life of the Mind (Book, edited collection)
Claudia Rankine's Plays
HELP
About HELP (The Shed)
Resources on HELP
Short Video on HELP
Examining the Nature of White Male Privilege — The Shed's "In the Works"
The White Card
The White Card (Graywolf Press)
Review of The White Card (The Nation)
About HELP (The Shed)
Resources on HELP
Short Video on HELP
Examining the Nature of White Male Privilege — The Shed's "In the Works"
The White Card
The White Card (Graywolf Press)
Review of The White Card (The Nation)
more
Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
Education and Criminalization: Do #BlackLivesMatter in Schools? Resource list generated by Subini Ancy Annamma, Ph.D. "with support by a cadre of community **Feel free to share, just cite me to honor the labor** #CiteBlackWomen "
Reading List by Dr. Bettina L. Love
Education and Criminalization: Do #BlackLivesMatter in Schools? Resource list generated by Subini Ancy Annamma, Ph.D. "with support by a cadre of community **Feel free to share, just cite me to honor the labor** #CiteBlackWomen "
Reading List by Dr. Bettina L. Love
