Discussion: Just Us - An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
Tue, Jun 01
|Online event via Zoom
Folio continues a critical series of book discussions exploring the history of racism in the United States with Just Us a new book by Claudia Rankine


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Jun 01, 2021, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT
Online event via Zoom
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Folio continues a critical series of book discussions exploring the history of racism in the United States with Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine.
As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history.
Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine's questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture's liminal and private spaces--the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the voting booth--where neutrality and politeness live on the surface of differing commitments, beliefs, and prejudices as our public and private lives intersect.
This brilliant…
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