![]() ![]() She continued in parochial schools until her high-school graduation. They settled in the Bronx, and Rankine was enrolled in a Catholic elementary school. When she was seven years old, her family moved from Jamaica to New York. ![]() Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on January 1, 1963. ![]() Rankine cleverly confronts the reader with the woman's passive racism by casting the poem completely in the second person, forcing the reader to imagine one's own reaction to the situation. The poem depicts the subtlety of racism faced by African Americans every day in modern society, describing an empty seat on a train declined by a female passenger because she is afraid of the man sitting next to it. A well-known prose poem found in section VI of this volume is sometimes referred to by its opening phrase, On the train the woman standing. The book gathers everything from short anecdotes about the thoughtless remarks of coworkers to samples of visual art to pieces addressing racial aggression and violence. The 2014 collection Citizen: An American Lyric, by award-winning writer Claudia Rankine, is a thought-provoking, uniquely styled statement about race issues in the United States in the twenty-first century. ![]()
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