Review: Rankine & Loffreda, eds., The Racial Imaginary (2016)

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The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind by Claudia Rankine

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This is a collection of open letters about writing and race with an excellent critical/theoretical introduction. Perspectives range widely, both racially and in terms of the individual writer's understanding of how race affects their work. I particularly liked Rachel Zucker's letter, in which she responded and then went back and footnoted her response extensively, interrogating basically everything she'd said, deconstructing her own response to the question of race and writing.



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