Claudia Rankine and Maggie Nelson Among the 2016 MacArthur Fellows

by Rich Smith"Because white men can't police their imaginations / Black men are dying."—from Claudia Rankine's Citizen. JAMIYLA LOWE
If you've been keeping up with the book section right here in the Stranger, then you've already met this year's literary MacArthur fellows.In addition to changing the way academic leaders talk about race in literature, Claudia Rankine's Citizen explored the dailiness of racism, the near constant clashes of our contemporary and historical selves.
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