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Copy Link : https://site.bookcenterapp.com/YUMPU/1644450631 Book Synopsis : Now in paperback, Claudia Rankine&#8217s &#8220skyscraper in the literature on racism&#8221 (Christian Science Monitor)In Just Us, Claudia Rankine invites us into a necessary conversation about Whiteness in America. What would it take for us to breach the silence, guilt, and violence that arise from addressing Whiteness for what it is? What are the consequences if we keep avoiding this conversation? What might it look like if we step into it? &#8220I learned early that being right pales next to staying in the room,&#8221 she writes.This brilliant assembly of essays, poems, documents, and images disrupts the false comfort of our culture&#8217s liminal and private spaces&#8213the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth&#8213where neutrality and politeness deflect true engagement in our shared problems. Rankine makes unprecedented art out of the actual voices and rebuttals of others: White men responding to, and with, their White male privilege a friend clarifying her unexpected behavior at a play and women on the street expressing the political currency of dyeing their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complement Rankine&#8217s own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. Funny, vulnerable, and prescient, Just Us is Ranki

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Now in paperback, Claudia Rankine&#8217s &#8220skyscraper in the literature on racism&#8221 (Christian Science Monitor)In Just Us, Claudia Rankine invites us into a necessary conversation about Whiteness in America. What would it take for us to breach the silence, guilt, and violence that arise from addressing Whiteness for what it is? What are the consequences if we keep avoiding this conversation? What might it look like if we step into it? &#8220I learned early that being right pales next to staying in the room,&#8221 she writes.This brilliant assembly of essays, poems, documents, and images disrupts the false comfort of our culture&#8217s liminal and private spaces&#8213the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth&#8213where neutrality and politeness deflect true engagement in our shared problems. Rankine makes unprecedented art out of the actual voices and rebuttals of others: White men responding to, and with, their White male privilege a friend clarifying her unexpected behavior at a play and women on the street expressing the political currency of dyeing their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complement Rankine&#8217s own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. Funny, vulnerable, and prescient, Just Us is Ranki

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Just Us: An American Conversation

Now in paperback, Claudia Rankine&#8217s&#8220skscraper in the literature on

racism&#8221(Christian Science Monitor)In Just Us, Claudia Rankine invites us into a necessary

conversation about Whiteness in America. What would it take for us to breach the silence, guilt, and

violence that arise from addressing Whiteness for what it is? What are the consequences if we keep

avoiding this conversation? What might it look like if we step into it? &#8220Ilearned early that being right

pales next to staying in the room,&#8221she writes.This brilliant assembly of essays, poems,

documents, and images disrupts the false comfort of our culture&#8217sliminal and private

spaces&#8213th airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth&#8213whre neutrality and

politeness deflect true engagement in our shared problems. Rankine makes unprecedented art out of the

actual voices and rebuttals of others: White men responding to, and with, their White male privilege a

friend clarifying her unexpected behavior at a play and women on the street expressing the political

currency of dyeing their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that

complement Rankine&#8217sown text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word.

Funny, vulnerable, and prescient, Just Us is Rankine&#8217smost intimate and urgent book, a crucial

call to challenge our vexed reality.

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