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A review by aliceboule
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
4.0
The style that Rankine utilizes in completely unique to her. The mixture of memoir, textbook, prose and poetry makes for a striking mosaic.
In this lyric (?) she addresses the social injustices of this world - in particular those of the racial kind. Ranking brings up the idea of micro-aggressions and their impact on the psyche. Constantly having to "let things go" starts to build up inside people, eventually leading to violence or outbursts over the littlest things.
I found page 134 and 135 terrifying. Because what Ranking brings to the light is not an issue that has been resolved but one that is currently being bled over. And perhaps this novel (?) or testament to injustice is the first step towards ending it.
In this lyric (?) she addresses the social injustices of this world - in particular those of the racial kind. Ranking brings up the idea of micro-aggressions and their impact on the psyche. Constantly having to "let things go" starts to build up inside people, eventually leading to violence or outbursts over the littlest things.
I found page 134 and 135 terrifying. Because what Ranking brings to the light is not an issue that has been resolved but one that is currently being bled over. And perhaps this novel (?) or testament to injustice is the first step towards ending it.