Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is a poet, essayist, and playwright. Her book Citizen: An American Lyric won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her latest book is Just Us: An American Conversation.

From That Were Once Beautiful Children

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from Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

Cornel West makes the point that hope is different from American optimism. After the initial presidential election results come in, I stop watching the news.

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A short narrative in service of plot entitled Proximity of Exposed to Posed

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Elsewhere, things tend

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