Books by Claudia Rankine
“Claudia Rankine is a poet. There is a meditation on anger in the book that I just found illuminating…She begins to talk about how, for example, there’s a kind of what she calls ‘commodified’ rage of oppressed people, and what she means by commodified rage is that you are allowed to be angry, as long as it can create capitalistic profit. So you can create angry music. We get hip hop in the 90s, that was very conscious, very angry, but we know that the owners of those record labels were white and it was feeding into an industry so people make money.” Read more...
The best books on Anger at Racial Injustice
Myisha Cherry, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Claudia Rankine were recommended
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
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Race Matters
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The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
The best books on Anger at Racial Injustice, recommended by Myisha Cherry
The best books on Anger at Racial Injustice, recommended by Myisha Cherry
In many philosophical and religious traditions, anger is regarded as a useless emotion that’s best avoided but it can play a vital role in the fight against injustice. American philosopher Myisha Cherry, author of The Case for Rage, recommends books that shed light on how to be angry productively.
The Best Prose Poetry, recommended by Jeremy Noel-Tod
It’s not quite poetry, yet not quite prose: the prose poem is “the defining poetic invention of modernity,” argues Jeremy Noel-Tod, editor of The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem. Here he chooses five of the best prose poems from Arthur Rimbaud to Claudia Rankine.
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
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The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music
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How Does Government Listen to Scientists?
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Voices From Chernobyl
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Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
The best books on Tech Utopias and Dystopias, recommended by Mahlet Zimeta
The best books on Tech Utopias and Dystopias, recommended by Mahlet Zimeta
As advances in AI lead some to dream of utopia, the reality is that dystopia is a lot easier to get to, says tech policy adviser Mahlet Zimeta. She recommends books to think more deeply about how technology affects the world around us, from Nietzsche to Chernobyl and from poetry to speculative fiction.
