Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine writes poetry, essays, plays, and works that combine several forms to examine public language and everyday encounters. Just Us brings essays, poems, images, conversations, and fact-checked commentary together in a book Graywolf Press describes as an invitation to discuss whiteness and the habits that sustain division. It completes a loose trilogy after Don’t Let Me Be Lonely and Citizen. Rankine has also co-edited anthologies and co-founded the Racial Imaginary Institute. Her use of documentary material beside personal observation gives readers more than one voice or interpretive frame, making the structure itself part of the inquiry.