Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

Apr 2015 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Allyson Johnson

About this audiobook

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship.

About the author

Claudia Rankine is the author of several books, including Just Us: An American Conversation and Citizen: An American Lyric. She is a former MacArthur Fellow and professor at Yale University, and is currently a professor of creative writing at New York University.

Allyson Johnson began her entertainment career in her hometown of Chicago as an Emmy Award-winning child news anchor. A graduate of Brown University, she is a working actress, singer, and audiobook narrator in the New York City metropolitan area.