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EPISODE · Jan 29, 2026 · 59 MIN

Claudia Rankine's Citizen (2014): An American Lyric

from The Literature Humanities Radio Hour on WKCR 89.9FM: Literary Classics in Conversation · host thomaspreston

Thomas Preston is joined by colleagues Katrina & Larry to discuss the first text on the Spring syllabus, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen (2014), an award-winning, essayistic-poetic work that “recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media” (Graywolf Press).

Thomas Preston is joined by colleagues Katrina & Larry to discuss the first text on the Spring syllabus, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen (2014), an award-winning, essayistic-poetic work that “recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media” (Graywolf Press).

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