Reddit reviews Citizen: An American Lyric

There's a lot of great writing about that in this book

In terms of BLM, it might be worth reading some stuff by Ta-Nehisi Coates too; his book Between the World and Me is pretty good but his longform journalism for the Atlantic is better: check out "The Case for Reparations" and "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration". For a counterpoint, check out RL Stephens's critique of Coates here and in this excellent interview.


It's poetry, but Citizen by Claudia Rankine is quick and examines the ways that structural racism infiltrates people's daily interactions. Here's an excerpt.

Edit: one more, Keeyanga Yamahtta Taylor's From #blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation is excellent!

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