Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

176 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction essays poetry race challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

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In this moving, critical and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems, Claudia Rankine examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice, and longer meditations on ...

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Moods

reflective 76%
emotional 71%
challenging 66%
informative 38%
sad 33%
dark 30%
tense 20%
inspiring 11%
hopeful 3%
adventurous 1%
mysterious 1%

Pace

fast 54%
medium 36%
slow 9%

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