{"product_id":"citizen-an-american-lyric-3","title":"Citizen: An American Lyric","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBoston Globe,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Atlantic,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBuzzFeed,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e NPR. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlate,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVulture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRefinery 29,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and many more . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDon't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCitizen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named \"post-race\" society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claudia Rankine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45497542607024,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0528\/6821\/9056\/files\/61lla6QqQ2L._SL1500.jpg?v=1785651955","url":"https:\/\/www.umojabooks.com\/products\/citizen-an-american-lyric-3","provider":"Umoja House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}