In her new book 'Just Us,' Claudia Rankine invites us all to talk about white privilege
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September 23, 2020Culture“But what about Black-on-Black crime?”It’s a question that poet, playwright and professor Claudia Rankine has been fielding ever since she toured the country for her 2014 bestseller “Citizen: An American Lyric.” And she expects it for her latest work.“It was never from a white person but always a South Asian guy trying to distance himself from me to show that he’s not Black,” Rankine said. “I understand. There’s a level of anxiety associated with Blackness because of the violence and the history of degradation that comes with that. They want to have a chance to live.”Her new book, “Just Us: An...
