![]() ![]() And then the storm came and you thought, Why are they not evacuating those neighborhoods?” “We were watching the coverage.… Weeks before, they were talking about the levee breaking, and it was located in communities of color. ![]() Rankine said the first piece she and Lucas wrote was based on CNN coverage of the hurricane. That’s the title.”įreeman asked her about the origins of Situations, the videos she’s made with her spouse, John Lucas, in which each video dialogues with a major event such as Hurricane Katrina, and which are part of Citizen. It was sponsored by Citizen, and she thought, “That’s it. This book got its title from a tennis match with huge cameras, featuring Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka at the U.S. Rankine responded that all of her books begin with the title “Danger: Will Robinson.” She has many files on her computer, but she never knows which is the work she’s looking for because they all have this title. ![]() When Rankine joined, he asked her about why the book got its bold title. California Book Club host John Freeman started off an hour-long discussion of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric by noting the beautiful and disturbing images in the book. ![]()
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