Claudia Rankine Citizen Summary

Claudia Rankine, author of the book “Citizen” uncovers and interrogates what has been called our “post-race” society. The shortness of her style asks us to redefine our responsibilities (ethnic and otherwise) by examining the meanings of the insignificant citizen.” She urges, “to distinguish what you’ll sound like is worth noting” and surrender: “all importance departs the options of any kind of association as you understand that you cannot get anywhere without knowing where you were in the post race society. She compels us to question what it means to be American.
Rankine expounds on the body before she does so on race. Rankline contends that the body is unable to escape itself and its color hence her reason to expound on the body before