Just Us: An American Conversation
Categories: Books, Literature & Fiction, Poetry



Dimensions: 6.06 x 0.82 x 8.98 inches
ISBN-13: 978-1644450635
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1644450631
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Print length: 360 pages
Publication date: September 7, 2021
subtitle: Paperback – September 7, 2021
author: Visit Amazon's Claudia Rankine Page search results Claudia Rankine
review: Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Review An Amazon Best Book of September 2020: Like her award-winning Citizen , Claudia Rankine’s Just Us is comprised of short vignettes, photos, excerpts from textbooks, tweets, historical documents, poems, and her own experiences as a Black woman, which serve to unravel the reality of the racism that runs rampant in our country. From chatting with strangers on airplanes, to recounting moments in her classroom, Rankine challenges herself, her students, and her readers to ask questions about privilege, racism, and bias, and then to listen. Throughout Just Us , Rankine annotates her own words and thoughts, as a way of reminding the reader of her commitment to understanding the evolutionary nature of thought, identifying bias, and then addressing it. In so doing, she encourages the reader to be ever vigilante and open to conversation. Rankine’s brilliance shines through her ideas and her facility with language, but also through the construction of Just Us , which is a truly visual and active inquiry into race. This book is catalyst for not only edification, but for participation and action. —Al Woodworth, Amazon Book Review About the Author Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric and four previous books, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric . Her work has appeared recently in the Guardian , the New York Times Book Review , the New York Times Magazine , and the Washington Post . She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the winner of the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, and a contributing editor of Poets & Writers . She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. Rankine is the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University.