Book review: Citizen by Claudia Rankine

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

How does it feel to be the daily victim of systematic racism? To be black in a world coated in white, white-coded, even blackness? To exist in a powerful white machine when you are not white? To face those mundane daily humiliations that affirm otherness where none should exist. Not anymore. Not now. In this century. Yet it does. How does that feel? This beautiful book will give you some idea...

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