EAN: 9780141994086

JUST US - CLAUDIA RANKINE KARTONIERT (TB)

A TLS  FINANCIAL TIMES  NEW STATESMAN  GUARDIAN  OBSERVER AND WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE
YEARFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION From award-winning
writer Claudia Rankine  the stunning follow-up to Citizen and Don't Let Me Be Lonely 'Riveting'
Bernardine Evaristo  TLS (Books of the Year) 'Brilliant' Gary Younge  New Statesman (Books of
the Year) 'Timely and powerful' Fatima Bhutto  Financial Times 'One of our time's most incisive
brilliant and necessary intellectuals' Seán Hewitt  Irish Times 'Ranking is a writer of genius'
Jeremy Noel-Tod  Sunday Times At home and in government  contemporary America finds itself
riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not
alone. In such partisan conditions  how can humans best approach one another across our
differences? Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light  Claudia
Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers - each disrupting the
false comfort of spaces where our public and private lives intersect  like the airport  the
theatre  the dinner party and the voting booth - and urges us to enter into the conversations
which could offer the only humane pathways through this moment of division. Just Us is an
invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together  and to breach the silence 
guilt and violence that surround whiteness. Brilliantly arranging essays  images and poems
along with the voices and rebuttals of others  it counterpoints Rankine's own text with
facing-page notes and commentary  and closes with a bravura study of women confronting the
political and cultural implications of dyeing their hair blonde. Wry  vulnerable and prescient
this is Rankine's most intimate work  less interested in being right than in being true  and
being together.

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