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Just Us

Mixing essays, poetry and images, Claudia Rankine’s new book, Just Us, asks how our notions of whiteness play out in these United States.

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Review of ‘Just Us’

Mixing essays, poetry and images, Claudia Rankine’s new book, Just Us: An American Conversation, asks how our notions of whiteness play out in these United States. In the book’s meditative opening poem, she asks what if: “What if what I want from you is new, newly made / a new sentence in response to all…

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