Claudia Rankine

pertaining to the color of one’s skin, because no one’s skin color is truly black. Rather, skin appears in various shades of beige to brown, and every tone in between. In Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, she discusses how being a person of color has become a way to define someone’s identity, and how it affects the way in which one lives. Rankine…

and inequality, in a response to the 2016 Presidential election, extremely racist microaggressions have become more apparent, seeming to have been enabled by the new presidential elect and his views. Trauma is what drives the author of Citizen, Claudia Rankine, as the overwhelming experiences with racism reveal a deeply rooted history of prejudice, which…

like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X have two different philosophies when it comes to the methods that should be taken to destroy racism and discrimination in America even though both fought for equal rights. The juxtaposition between poets Claudia Rankine and Saul Williams versus…

In South Africa was racism was grown by the developing corrupt government forcing Apartheid onto the people whereas in America racism occurs in social settings especially by the police enforcement. In Claudia Rankine’s novel Citizen: An American Lyric touches on the microagression, a form of racism where due to negative notions interaction with other racial groups is quite limited. “Ah! These English are really strange! They simply greet you and from then…

clearly shown in the excerpt, though, what could be considered, racial profiling. Different from most novels, Claudia Rankine chooses to write her novel in the second person, allowing readers to become more engaged in the story on a more intimate level and create a personal connection; writing in the second person allows readers to easily place themselves in the story. In the excerpt, Rankine tells of an incidence in which your neighbor calls the police on a friend, whom you’ve asked to pick up…

of a Narrative Son by James Baldwin and Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine address issues of racial discrimination in the United States through writing. James Baldwin’s essay uses literary strategy termed framed narrative, which the narrative begins and ends with his father’s death. This technique leads the reader from a story into another that provide different perspective and meanings. Unlike Baldwin, Claudia Rankine not only writes in the second person but also displays images in…

In Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric”, she expresses present day issues of racism through poetry. In this poem she describes an occasion where the she goes to see a film with her partner and she allows a friend to babysit. She receives a call from the neighbor that there is a threatening man walking near both of homes and the police were contacted. It is explained to the neighbor that a friend is babysitting and reassures the neighbor that she has met this young man. She calls the…

In Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, she portrays the prejudice and racism against minorities, especially black, that we face and hear about in our everyday lives. Moreover, she ambiguously leaves the reader to visualize whatever we want by flashing incomplete stories that are without cause and effect. By giving us different instances of prejudice and racism that happen in her life and other black people’s lives, she urges us to take a closer look at our everyday lives to understand…

The Meaning of Serena Williams: Revision One The article The Meaning of Serena Williams by Claudia Rankine talks about how Williams is categorized in black excellence and how it’s different from white excellence. Williams needs to prove to herself that she can be equal to white excellence in achievements. From the text, one can conclude that society influences the aspect of appearance to critics. Williams is treated with disrespect in the industry because she’s a black female athlete and is…

time, motivation inside and outside the classes, ask for help, and going to professor 's office hour and writing center. I spend my time to read the two articles; The Other Side of the Face by Karl Knausgaard and Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. In my personal experience, I attended to Youth Leadership Camp hosted by National Association of the Deaf. This program is for the younger students to learn how to become a successful leader and the National Association of the Deaf need…