Inar Nasraddinov
Prof: Michael Crowder
English 480
11 March 2018
Rhetorical Analysis essay, “Citizen: An American Lyric” by Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine’s book “Citizen: An American Lyric” a New York Times bestseller, which also a winner of many awards, published in 2014. Rankine said that she was preparing to write this book during her whole life, and from the moment Citizen was published it is getting more popular not only in the United States of America and the audience from the different part of the world getting bigger. During this time Rankine participates in symposiums, gives lectures and organize evening book discussions with students of different ethnicity. Rankine teaches creative writing and poetry at Pomona College in Claremont, California. The problems which
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Racial discrimination in modern life is the pus from the wound United States got during 1619 – 1865 years. The cover of the book of David Hammons art piece created in 1995: a black ripped hoodie against a white background which recalls Trayvon Martin, seventeen years old Afro-American high school student who got shot by the police. During the interview in L.A. Times Festival of Books, Rankine described the cover of the book as a:”replacing – is a dynamic of people death which is a sign that racism is systemic”, also she added that when we talk about the systemic racism we also have to talk about: “what we are calling America as we call ourselves citizens.” Citizens in the US still face to segregations in schools, microaggressions in daily life, dehumanization, and all these hidden in daily life routines.