Claudia Rankine

In her first book after the celebrated American trilogy, Claudia Rankine returns to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet. Triage follows the turbulent friendship between two composite characters, the narrator and the theorist, self-identified sisters struggling to define their wounded histories and their shared but separate lives. During college, they invent a game of collapse: every time they see each other, they have to stop and fall to the ground. As their kinship continues on and off for decades, ‘collapse’ takes on new meanings. We see it in the violence of their pasts, artworks depicting couches where someone might ease their exhaustion, the ongoing devastation in Gaza, and the antagonism of their conversation and their love for each other. ‘No matter our posture,’ Rankine writes, ‘we are all among the rubble’. And through that wreckage, Rankine scours the edifice of fact to find the fiction at its core, the lie at the centre of all things. Triage is an argument for the necessity of grieving, the demand for action in our time of relentless loss, and an ode to those complicated but beautiful friendships that we rely on to unsettle us, to make us better.

A groundbreaking new direction for Claudia Rankine, the best-selling author of Citizen and Just Us Claudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated American trilogy, presented with full-color visuals, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory, criticism, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet. Triage follows the turbulent friendship between two composite characters, the narrator and the theorist, self-identified sisters struggling to define their wounded histories and their shared but separate lives. During college, they invent a game of collapse: Every time they see each other, they have to stop and fall to the ground. As their kinship continues off and on for decades, "collapse" takes on new meanings that are seen and felt in the violence of their pasts, artworks depicting couches where someone might ease their exhaustion, the ongoing devastation in Gaza, and the antagonism of their conversation and their love for each other. Triage is an argument for the necessity of grieving and the demand for action in our time of relentless loss. "No matter our posture," Rankine writes, "we are all among the rubble." This is a book for those complicated but beautiful friendships that we come to rely on to unsettle us, to make us better.

A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. Fusing the lyric, the essay, and the visual, Rankine negotiates the enduring anxieties of medicated depression, race riots, divisive elections, terrorist attacks, and ongoing wars--doom scrolling through the daily news feeds that keep us glued to our screens and that have come to define our age. First published in 2004, Don't Let Me Be Lonely is a hauntingly prescient work, one that has secured a permanent place in American literature. This new edition is presented in full color with updated visuals and text, including a new preface by the author, and matches the composition of Rankine's best-selling and award-winning Citizen and Just Us as the first book in her acclaimed American trilogy. Don't Let Me Be Lonely is a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness--a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.

'Johnson is a leading voice of his generation.' - New York Times The most comprehensive publication to date on widely celebrated artist Rashid Johnson Working with a variety of media that includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance, Rashid Johnson has created a nuanced and iconographic body of work that connects literature, music, and art. Personal references and pervasive cultural narratives are interweaved with the legacy of modernist abstraction, producing what critics have labelled 'conceptual post-black art'. A precocious talent (his work was included in the seminal 'Freestyle' exhibition in New York in 2001), Johnson received the High Museum of Art’s David C. Driskell Prize, which honours contributions in the field of African-American art.

'Exquisite . . . readers will find themselves transformed by it' Claire Lynch'Stunning . . . dazzlingly laser-like and movingly original' Lara Feigel'Inventive and searching' Calvin Bedient'I am awestruck . . . a masterpiece' Mary GordonThe stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of CitizenIn this, the landmark achievement that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine invites us into the lives of Liv and her husband Erland, as they find themselves propelled into the classic plot: boy loves girl, girl gets pregnant. The couple's journey is charted through dreams, conversations and reflections, in a text like no other, deftly moulding language and crossing genres to arrive at new life: baby Ersatz. Plot is an inventive and engrossing meditation on pregnancy and the changes it heralds: the potential bodily cost, the loss of self, the sense of impending stasis. Each fear compounds Liv's reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. A profoundly daring collection, it explodes the emotive capabilities of language and form to achieve an unparalleled understanding of creation and existence.

The Spanish edition of Claudia Rankine's Just Us, a new, acclaimed, genre-bending reflection on whiteness in America. "A skyscraper in the literature on racism." --Christian Science Monitor "Rankine is] helping America understand itself, one conversation at a time." --Associated Press NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 by The New York Times, Time Magazine, NPR, Esquire, The Guardian, O Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Star Tribune, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history. Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images is Rankine's most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, being together. *** La edici n en espa ol de la nueva y aclamada reflexi n de g nero mixto de Claudia Rankine (Just Us) sobre la blancura en los Estados Unidos. NOMBRADO MEJOR LIBRO DE 2020 por The New York Times, Time Magazine, NPR, Esquire, The Guardian, O Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Star Tribune, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews y Publishers Weekly. A medida que se aumenta el discurso sobre la supremac a blanca cotidiana sin tener respuestas claras a mano, cu l es la mejor manera de acercarnos a los dem s? Claudia Rankine, sin decirnos lo que tenemos que hacer, nos pide que iniciemos los debates que podr n abrir caminos a trav s de este momento divisivo de la historia estadounidense. Just us nos invita al descubrimiento de lo que se necesita para seguir hablando juntos, incluso y especialmente para romper el silencio, la culpa y la violencia que siguen a los discursos directos sobre la blancura. Este conjunto brillante de ensayos, poemas e im genes es la obra m s ntima de Rankine, menos interesada en tener raz n que en encontrar la verdad, en estar juntos.

A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION From award-winning writer Claudia Rankine, the stunning follow-up to Citizen and Don't Let Me Be Lonely 'Riveting' Bernardine Evaristo, TLS (Books of the Year)'Brilliant' Gary Younge, New Statesman (Books of the Year)'Timely and powerful' Fatima Bhutto, Financial Times'One of our time's most incisive, brilliant and necessary intellectuals' Seán Hewitt, Irish Times'Ranking is a writer of genius' Jeremy Noel-Tod, Sunday TimesAt home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences? Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light, Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers - each disrupting the false comfort of spaces where our public and private lives intersect, like the airport, the theatre, the dinner party and the voting booth - and urges us to enter into the conversations which could offer the only humane pathways through this moment of division. Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, and to breach the silence, guilt and violence that surround whiteness. Brilliantly arranging essays, images and poems along with the voices and rebuttals of others, it counterpoints Rankine's own text with facing-page notes and commentary, and closes with a bravura study of women confronting the political and cultural implications of dyeing their hair blonde. Wry, vulnerable and prescient, this is Rankine's most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, and being together.

Now in paperback, Claudia Rankine's "skyscraper in the literature on racism" (Christian Science Monitor) In Just Us, Claudia Rankine invites us into a necessary conversation about Whiteness in America. What would it take for us to breach the silence, guilt, and violence that arise from addressing Whiteness for what it is? What are the consequences if we keep avoiding this conversation? What might it look like if we step into it? "I learned early that being right pales next to staying in the room," she writes. This brilliant assembly of essays, poems, documents, and images disrupts the false comfort of our culture's liminal and private spaces--the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth--where neutrality and politeness deflect true engagement in our shared problems. Rankine makes unprecedented art out of the actual voices and rebuttals of others: White men responding to, and with, their White male privilege; a friend clarifying her unexpected behavior at a play; and women on the street expressing the political currency of dyeing their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complement Rankine's own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. Funny, vulnerable, and prescient, Just Us is Rankine's most intimate and urgent book, a crucial call to challenge our vexed reality.

Det hvide kort er et teaterstykke, der handler om racisme. Om gode intentioner. Og om magt og racisme og kunst og blindhed. Vi er i teaterstykket placeret hos den absolutte økonomiske elite i USA. Nemlig hos kunstsamleren Charles og hans kone Virginia. De har inviteret den opadstigende stjerne i kunstverdenen Charlotte til middag. Hun er sort, og arbejder i sin kunst med racisme og sortes rettigheder. Det hvide kort er en åbenbarende gennemspilning af de uligheder, der stadig er knyttet til race. Udfoldet i det hvide rum som kunsten så ofte placeres i. Det hvide kort er første udgivelse i udgivelsesserien Bibliotek Bayou. En udgivelsesserie, der sætter fokus på dramatik og scenekunst.“…Måske vil en diskussion om racisme aldrig kunne foregå fra ligestillede positioner mellem de involverede. Måske forventes der en fremførelse af noget, jeg som sort kvinde ikke kan se, selv ikke når jeg modsætter mig dets tilstedeværelse. Måske kan man kun udforske disse kendte og alligevel usynlige dynamikker ved at træde ind i et rum og gennem ­ spille dem.” — Claudia Rankine

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history. Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine's questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture's liminal and private spaces--the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth--where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments, beliefs, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect. This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to, and with, their white male privilege; a friend's explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine's own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. Sometimes wry, often vulnerable, and always prescient, Just Us is Rankine's most intimate work, less interested in being right than in being true, being together.

Den usynlege kvitheita. Kvifor kjem så mange velmeinte forsøk på antirasistisk arbeid frå den kvite middelklassa til kort? Er det i det heile mogleg å nå ein felles røyndom for velmeinte, privilegerte kvite og svarte som kjenner rasismen på kroppen? Dette er sentrale spørsmål i Claudia Rankine, forfattaren av «Medborgar», sitt nye stykke, «Det kvite kortet». Ekteparet Virginia og Charles, to kvite kunstsamlarar, har invitert den gryande, svarte kunstnaren Charlotte til middag. Dei vil kjøpe kunsten hennar og prøver å smigre henne med refleksjon kring spørsmål om kunst, representasjon og rase. Samtalen imploderer sakte, men sikkert, og stykket får lesaren til å vri seg i ubehag etter kvart som middagsselskapet havarerer. Det utforskar kva som skjer om ein er villig til å bli i rommet når det gjer vondt å lytte. Boka er like fullt humoristisk, og personane blir meir og meir melodramatiske etter kvart som selskapet utartar seg. «Det kvite kortet» er eit politisk lesestykke med stor aktualitet og samfunnsrelevans. Boka er ei rørande og avslørande destillering av raseskiljet slik det blir erfart i kvite rom; i stova, i kunstgalleria, i samfunnet og i vår eigen fantasi. Frå engesk ved Kristina Leganger Iversen og Camara Lundestad Joof.

A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of CitizenThe White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation to respond.--from the introduction by Claudia Rankine Claudia Rankine's first published play, The White Card, poses the essential question: Can American society progress if whiteness remains invisible? Composed of two scenes, the play opens with a dinner party thrown by Virginia and Charles, an influential Manhattan couple, for the up-and-coming artist Charlotte. Their conversation about art and representations of race spirals toward the devastation of Virginia and Charles's intentions. One year later, the second scene brings Charlotte and Charles into the artist's studio, and their confrontation raises both the stakes and the questions of what--and who--is actually on display. Rankine's The White Card is a moving and revelatory distillation of racial divisions as experienced in the white spaces of the living room, the art gallery, the theater, and the imagination itself.

Lovprist vitnesbyrd om vår tids rasisme. Ein annan venn seier at du må lære deg å ikkje absorbere verda. Ho seier at ho av og til kan høyre si eiga røyst seie stille til kven det skulle vere: Det du seier der, det aksepterer eg ikkje. Vennen din nektar å bere det som ikkje høyrer henne til. Å vere medborgar er ei forventning om at du skal delta, sjølv om samfunnet du lever i, fengslar, skadar og drep kroppar som ser ut som din. «Medborgar» er eit litterært vitnesbyrd over korleis rasismen til dagleg gjennomsyrar livet vårt, og er ei av dei mest lesne og omtalte amerikanske diktbøkene dei siste åra. Med ei blanding av poesi, prosa, essay og bilete naglar Claudia Rankine fast erfaringa med å bli gjort til den andre og utfordrar forståinga av kva det vil seie å vere medborgar, med døme frå framgangsrike personar som Serena Williams og Zinedine Zidane, frå TV og frå dagleglivet - i køen i matbutikken, i klasserommet, på jobben. Gjendikta av Kristina Leganger Iversen og Camara Christina Lundestad Joof. Boka er ein del av Samlagets gjendiktingsserie av ny poesi..

Statsborger er en reaktion på en virkelighed, hvor racisme udspiller sig i hverdagen og for åben skærm – ubevidst og bevidst, i strukturel og institutionaliseret form. Værket består af digte, reproduktioner, kommentarer, essayistik, malerier, tegninger, skulpturer og skærmbilleder. Claudia Rankine er født 1968 på Jamaica og er opvokset i USA. Hun har udgivet fem digtsamlinger, to skuespil, flere essays og står bag flere antologier. Med det selvstændige værk Statsborger bygger Rankine videre på den undersøgelse af forskellige former for strukturel vold, hun påbegyndte i Lad mig ikke være ensom fra 2004. Begge bøger bærer undertitlen Et amerikansk digt og er udkommet på Kronstork. Statsborger har vundet en lang række priser og var blandt andet nomineret til en National Book Award.

MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the “greater” aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time, Greater New York. begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was founded in 1976 as an alternative venue that took advantage of disused real estate, reaching back to artists who engaged the margins of the city. In conjunction with the exhibition, MoMA PS1 is publishing a series of readers that will be released throughout the run of the exhibition. These short volumes revisit older histories of New York while also inviting speculation about its future, highlighting certain works in the exhibition and engaging a range of subjects including disco, performance anxiety, real estate and newly unearthed historical documents. The series features contributions from Fia Backström, Mark Beasley, Gregg Bordowitz, Susan Cianciolo, Douglas Crimp, Catherine Damman, David Grubbs, Angie Keefer, Aidan Koch, Glenn Ligon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Claudia Rankine, Collier Schorr, and Sukhdev Sandhu, concluding with a round-table conversation with exhibition curators Peter Eleey, Douglas Crimp, Thomas J. Lax and Mia Locks. The series is edited by Jocelyn Miller, Curatorial Associate, MoMA PS1.

Att vara människa är att vilja delta, även om det innebär att du öppnar dig för ett våldsamt, sårande tilltal från världen. Att vara medborgare är att förväntas delta, även när samhället du lever i fängslar, skadar, dödar kroppar som ser ut som din. Medborgare är ett litterärt vittnesbörd om hur rasismen genomsyrar våra dagliga liv och en av de senaste årens mest lästa och omtalade amerikanska poesiböcker. Med en blandning av poesi, prosa, essä och bild naglar Rankine fast problematiken i att vara den andre, och utmanar förståelsen av begreppet medborgarskap. Exemplen kommer från framgångsrika personer som Serena Williams och Zinedine Zidane likaväl som från TV, kön i matvarubutiken och klassrummet. Boken har tilldelats en mängd priser, bland annat National Book Critics Circle Award och PEN Open Book Award. Översättare: Marie Silkeberg och Jenny Tunedal