Core Conversations: Claudia Rankine's Citizen
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“Memory is a tough place. You were there. If this is not the truth, it is also not a lie.”
-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
As the Core enters its second century, join fellow alumni in a month-long reading of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. Rankine’s book-length poem, a summer reading assignment for all incoming Lit Hum students, combines the millennia-old lyric tradition with essay, image, and poetry to consider race relations and citizenship in twenty-first-century America.
Our communal reading of Citizen will officially begin on Friday, October 9 and includes a reading guide by Tyrone Palmer, Lecturer in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.
All College alumni are invited to join. If you are not a current member of the Core Conversations reading group, you can sign up now. You’ll receive introductory information on the text, the reading schedule, and weekly emails throughout this session with Professor Palmer’s reading guide, fun content, Questions of the Week, and ways to share your views without leaving your inbox! If you join the group after October 9, we'll send you the questions you missed so you can get caught up, or read along at your own pace.
If you’d like a more in-depth experience, with the opportunity to discuss Citizen with fellow alumni, join the Core Conversations Goodreads group, where members have a private message board for conversation and discussion.
If you're already on Goodreads, you can join the group now.
If you need help creating a Goodreads account, view How to Register.
For even more Citizen...
Join Claudia Rankine at a virtual author talkback.
