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A review by translove
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
5.0
just reread this in one sitting 5 years after the first time and god. i am so glad i decided to finally do this reread. i've been thinking about it for a long time because this book really stuck with me through all these years.
beautifully written, raw and often gut wrenching in the sometimes simple but always real yet poetic and poignant way in which it describes what it means to be black in america. i can feel the pain in every word. i can feel the anger and the fear and the exhaustion. i will never be able to truly understand it but i remember finding this book eye opening in some ways back when i first read it and i think today it still gave me something, maybe a little different, having i grown as a person in the last five years, but definitely something valuable. i think this is truly one of my favorite books.
as a (white) tennis and football (soccer) fan, the parts about serena williams and zinedine zidane had really struck me the first time and rereading them now i'm glad to find them just as good as i remembered. angering as hell, but well, anger has always been a constant as a serena williams fan, when seeing and reading and trying to argue against all the shit that was said about her and the things she's been put through during her career for simply being a black woman and the best there (possibly ever) was.
still 5 stars, forever 5 stars.
beautifully written, raw and often gut wrenching in the sometimes simple but always real yet poetic and poignant way in which it describes what it means to be black in america. i can feel the pain in every word. i can feel the anger and the fear and the exhaustion. i will never be able to truly understand it but i remember finding this book eye opening in some ways back when i first read it and i think today it still gave me something, maybe a little different, having i grown as a person in the last five years, but definitely something valuable. i think this is truly one of my favorite books.
as a (white) tennis and football (soccer) fan, the parts about serena williams and zinedine zidane had really struck me the first time and rereading them now i'm glad to find them just as good as i remembered. angering as hell, but well, anger has always been a constant as a serena williams fan, when seeing and reading and trying to argue against all the shit that was said about her and the things she's been put through during her career for simply being a black woman and the best there (possibly ever) was.
still 5 stars, forever 5 stars.