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Claudia Rankine
The stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen.
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Now in paperback, Claudia Rankine’s ‘skyscraper in the literature on racism’ (Christian Science Monitor)
At the theatre, around the dinner table, in the airport and in the voting booth, what…
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Examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice. This book includes essays, images and poetry together to form a testament…
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The award-winning poet’s powerful exploration of an America ever more unable to process its own toxins Here, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which…
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A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious…
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MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New…
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Kathy Lou Schultz
Provides the first book-length introduction to this vitally important poet. Written for scholars, poets, students, and general readers, Kathy Lou Schultz's book outlines Rankine's poetic career in all its major…
Over the past ten years Mark Peterson has focused his lens on the divided political landscape America has become. The Fourth Wall takes up Peterson's ongoing documentation where his award-winning…
Claudia Rankine, Sampada Aranke, Akili Tommasino
The most comprehensive publication to date on widely celebrated artist Rashid Johnson
A Jamaican-born poet’s collection of poetry about the people closest to her and about the United States, the country she now calls home.
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In her third collection of poems, Claudia Rankine creates a profoundly daring, ingeniously experimental examination of pregnancy, childbirth, and artistic expression.
Liv, an expectant mother, and her husband, Erland, are…
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Claudia Rankine’s second poetry collection, The End of the Alphabet, is an inquiry into despair and recovery, selfhood and alienation.
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century
I forget things too. It makes me sad…
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation–Just Us urges all of us into it
As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly…
In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named post-race society.
A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen
The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and…
Now in paperback, Claudia Rankine’s skyscraper in the literature on racism (Christian Science Monitor)
In Just Us, Claudia Rankine invites us into a necessary conversation about Whiteness in America. What…
The Spanish edition of Claudia Rankine’s (Citizen) new, acclaimed, genre-bending reflection on whiteness in America.
A skyscraper in the literature on racism. -Christian Science Monitor
Rankine is helping America understand…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Claudia Rankine’s from Citizen, VI [On the train the woman standing] , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character…
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How contemporary photographers from Hank Willis Thomas to Libita Clayton have subverted the constructions and complicities of whiteness
From the advent of early colonial photography in the 19th century to…
A thought-provoking mix of poetry, creative manifesto and criticism.
Showcases the most innovative and politically engaged poets working in the U.S.
The ideal introduction to the current generation of American poets
The ideal introduction to eleven of today’s most engaging women poets
Adrienne Rich
The collected works of Adrienne Rich, one of the most influential and political American poets of the last century (The Guardian).
A major survey chronicling Thomas' vibrant, rhinestone-adorned paintings
New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas' critically acclaimed and extensive body of work spans painting, collage, print, photography, video and immersive installations. With…
Amy Sara Carroll
In Fannie + Freddie / The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography, Amy Sara Carroll ‘undocuments’ the quotidian’s shades of gray/grey, the contingencies of post-Fordist relationality in the pre-Occupy window of time…
Frank, fearless letters from poets of all colors, genders, classes about the material conditions under which their art is made.
Denise Markonish
This generously illustrated book takes readers inside Nick Cave’s newest work: an enormous, elaborate journey through the workings of the artistic mind.
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Bervin produces fastidious and often collaboratively made artifacts that resist scholarly conclusiveness for the purpose of illuminating the process of understanding. -Jessica Baran, Artforum
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Mark Peterson
In White Noise Mark Peterson examines the rhetoric of the White House on immigration and Muslim bans, and how this echoes and intersects with nationalism, Western chauvinism, white supremacy, neo-Nazis…
Corey Keller,Elisabeth Sherman
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Dawoud Bay: an American project held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 15-May 25, 2020; the High Museum of…
Artist Rachel Jones’s first publication, say cheeeeese, is published to accompany her new commission at Chisenhale Gallery, London, in spring 2022. For her first solo exhibition in an institution, she…
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