Claire Reads Books | Citizen by Claudia Rankine | REVIEW @ClaireReadsBooks | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Thoughts on CITIZEN: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine.

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Black Lives Matter:

Updated resources (donation links, petitions, etc.): blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

THE ENDING OF POLICING (free e-book download): versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing

STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING (free audiobook): open.spotify.com/album/6PzcVM8Z1GMqeGlMBQ6ikX

THE NEW JIM CROW: newjimcrow.com

“No More Money for the Police” (The New York Times): tinyurl.com/yc4qyy7d

“The answer to police violence is not ‘reform.’ It’s defunding.” (The Guardian): tinyurl.com/yamt3fa7

The Okra Project (support for Black Trans community): theokraproject.com

Black-owned bookstores: lithub.com/you-can-order-today-from-these-black-owned-independent-bookstores

Register to vote: vote.gov

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Other books, links, and videos mentioned:

Bree Hill: youtube.com/watch?v=wSvNpXWTRQM&

The Artisan Geek: youtube.com/watch?v=pEIETa-IjeY

The Ideal Bookshelf’s Anti-Racist Reading List: instagram.com/p/CAgh_0XgUrX

“What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?” by Lauren Michele Jackson: vulture.com/2020/06/anti-racist-reading-lists-what-are-they-for.html

HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi

THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander

THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison

Interview with Claudia Rankine: kcet.org/shows/artbound/writer-claudia-rankine-on-white-blindness-the-black-body-and-the-freedom-to-live

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Goodreads: tinyurl.com/43pks567
Twitter: tinyurl.com/2y2cytzj