Citizen Claudia Rankine Analysis

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This book “Citizen” written by Claudia Rankine is a mixture of poetry, imagery, and an essay. I can personally say I enjoyed reading this book, I haven’t yet experienced a book that I was so entertained reading that I couldn’t wait to get to the next chapter. In today’s generation there is a lot of racial aggressions going in our daily lives and in the media that is very hard to avoid. It is sad that many young adults are growing up viewing and experiencing this kind of behavior. These young adults, even children may think this racial aggression is normal but there are authors like Claudia Rankine that help the public understand what is going on in this twenty first century with this kind of racism. “Citizen” is very powerful it uses scenes