Claudia Rankine

{{short description|Jamaican-American poet, essayist, and playwright (born 1963)}}

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| birth_place = Kingston, Jamaica

| occupation = Professor

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| nationality = American

| alma_mater = Williams College (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)

| genre = Poetry; Playwright

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| spouse = John Lucas

| awards = MacArthur Fellow

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Claudia Rankine ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|r|æ|ŋ|k|ɪ|n}}; born September 4, 1963) is a Jamaican-American poet, essayist, playwright, and the editor of several anthologies. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, two plays and various essays.

Her book of poetry, Citizen: An American Lyric, won the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Award, the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award[http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-award-winners-for-publishing-ye "National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners for Publishing Year 2014"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043910/https://www.bookcritics.org/news-notes/ |date=February 15, 2021 }}, Critical Mass, March 12, 2015. in Poetry (the first book in the award's history to be nominated in both poetry and criticism), the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, the 2015 NAACP Image Award in poetry, the 2015 PEN Open Book Award, the 2015 PEN American Center USA Literary Award, the 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award, and the 2015 VIDA Literary Award. Citizen was also a finalist for the 2014 National Book Award and the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize. It is the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category.

Rankine's numerous awards and honors include the 2014 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2014 Jackson Poetry Prize, and the 2014 Lannan Foundation Literary Award. In 2005, she was awarded the Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by the Academy of American Poets. In 2013, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.[https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/claudia-rankine "Claudia Rankine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235508/https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/claudia-rankine |date=September 26, 2017 }} "Poets.org" She is a 2016 United States Artist Zell Fellow and a 2016 MacArthur Fellow. In 2020, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rankine has taught at Pomona College and was the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University.{{Cite web|url=https://english.yale.edu/people/adjunct-professors-and-senior-lecturers-creative-writers/claudia-rankine|title=Claudia Rankine {{!}} English|website=english.yale.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-06-14|archive-date=October 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012120847/http://english.yale.edu/people/adjunct-professors-and-senior-lecturers-creative-writers/claudia-rankine|url-status=live}} In 2021, she joined the New York University Creative Writing Program as a Professor.{{Cite web|url=https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/claudia-rankine.html |title=Claudia Rankine |website=as.nyu.edu |access-date=2023-08-01}}

Life and work

Claudia Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and later immigrated to the United States during childhood. After growing up in New York City, she was educated at Williams College and Columbia University.

In 2003, Rankine started work as an associate professor at the University of Georgia.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

She taught English at Pomona College from 2006 to 2015.{{cite news |last1=Pepitone |first1=Paige |title=Claudia Rankine Reads Poetry, Discusses Racism at Garrison |url=https://tsl.news/news5854/ |access-date=30 August 2020 |work=The Student Life |date=29 April 2016}}{{cite news |title=First Lee Professor Appointed |url=http://www.pomona.edu/magazine/pcmfl06/DElivesofmind2.shtml |access-date=22 September 2020 |work=Pomona College Magazine |issue=Fall 2006 |publisher=Pomona College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512172528/http://www.pomona.edu/magazine/pcmfl06/DElivesofmind2.shtml |archive-date=12 May 2008}}

Her work has appeared in many journals, including Harper's, GRANTA, the Kenyon Review, and the Lana Turner Journal, and she is a contributor to New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby.{{cite news|url=https://newsday.co.tt/2019/04/13/of-africa-and-of-india/|title=Of Africa and of India|first=Marina|last=Salandy-Brown|author-link=Marina Salandy-Brown|website=Trinidad and Tobago Newsday|date=April 13, 2019|access-date=December 25, 2021}} Rankine co-edits (with Juliana Spahr) the anthology series American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language.

Winner of an Academy of American Poets fellowship, Rankine's work Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004), an experimental project, has been acclaimed for its unique blend of poetry, essay, lyric and television imagery. Of this volume, poet Robert Creeley wrote: "Claudia Rankine here manages an extraordinary melding of means to effect the most articulate and moving testament to the bleak times we live in I've yet seen. It's master work in every sense, and altogether her own."[http://www.pomona.edu/magazine/pcmfl06/DElivesofmind2.shtml Pomona College Magazine online] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512172528/http://www.pomona.edu/magazine/pcmfl06/DElivesofmind2.shtml |date=May 12, 2008 }}: news release.

Rankine's play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue, commissioned by The Foundry Theatre,{{cite web |last1=Isherwood |first1=Charles |author-link=Christopher Isherwood|title=Have You Ever Visited The Broncks? |website=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/theater/reviews/18provenance.html |date=September 17, 2009|access-date=17 September 2009}}{{cite web |title=Productions: The Provenance of Beauty |url=https://thefoundrytheatre.org/2009/09/18/the-provenance-of-beauty/ |website=The Foundry Theater|date=September 18, 2009 }} was a 2011 Distinguished Development Project Selection in the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage.{{cite web |url=http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/bollingen/winner.html |title=The Bollingen Prize for Poetry 2011 Winner |publisher=Beinecke.library.yale.edu |access-date=June 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616200256/http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/bollingen/winner.html |archive-date=June 16, 2010 |url-status=dead }}

In 2014, Graywolf Press published her book of poetry Citizen: An American Lyric.Dan Chiasson, [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/color-codes "Colour Codes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043915/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/color-codes |date=February 15, 2021 }}, The New Yorker, October 27, 2014. Kamran Javadizadeh dissects this novel, particularly Rankine's allusion to Robert Lowell's Life Studies. He writes that Citizen takes a new angle on and recognizes Lowell's whiteness,{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|2863236690}} |last1=Weiskott |first1=Eric |title=Claudia Rankine and Robert Lowell, again |journal=Explicator |volume=80 |issue=3/4 |date=2022 |pages=103–105 |doi=10.1080/00144940.2023.2166393 |s2cid=255911993 }} a subject of interest for Rankine.

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|quote = "Not long ago you are in a room where someone asks the philosopher Judith Butler what makes language hurtful. You can feel everyone lean in. Our very being exposes us to the address of another, she answers. We suffer from the condition of being addressable. Our emotional openness, she adds, is carried by our addressability. Language navigates this.

For so long you thought the ambition of racist language was to denigrate and erase you as a person. After considering Butler's remarks you begin to understand yourself as rendered hyper-visible in the face of such language acts. Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that you are present. Your alertness, your openness, your desire to engage actually demand your presence, your looking up, your talking back as insane as it is, saying please."

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Rankine also works on documentary multimedia pieces with her husband, photographer and filmmaker John Lucas. These video essays are titled Situations.

Of her work, poet Mark Doty wrote: "Claudia Rankine's formally inventive poems investigate many kinds of boundaries: the unsettled territory between poetry and prose, between the word and the visual image, between what it's like to be a subject and the ways we're defined from outside by skin color, economics, and global corporate culture. This fearless poet extends American poetry in invigorating new directions."[http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/claudia-rankine Claudia Rankine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043919/https://poets.org/poet/claudia-rankine |date=February 15, 2021 }} at poets.org.

In a 2023 review in The Guardian of her 2001 collection Plot, critic Kate Kellaway wrote: "It is a bracing, discomfiting and complicated read partly because it breaks a taboo. It is often oppressively assumed that women will necessarily rejoice at pregnancy but this work involves a complicated dredging of doubt, an examination of the visceral and cerebral burden of pregnancy, a deliberate losing of the 'plot' (the word encompassing several meanings)."{{cite news |last1=Kellaway |first1=Kate |title=Plot by Claudia Rankine review – the lives of mothers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/11/plot-by-claudia-rankine-review-the-lives-of-mothers |newspaper=The Observer |date=April 11, 2023 |access-date=May 25, 2023}}

Rankine additionally founded and curates the Racial Imaginary Institute, which she called "a moving collaboration with other collectives, spaces, artists, and organizations towards art exhibitions, readings, dialogues, lectures, performances, and screenings that engage the subject of race."{{Cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/claudia-rankine|title=Claudia Rankine|last=Rankine|first=Claudia|date=2001-02-12|website=Claudia Rankine|language=en|access-date=2018-11-19|archive-date=September 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235508/https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/claudia-rankine|url-status=live}}

In 2017, Rankine collaborated with choreographer and performer Will Rawls to generate the work What Remains. Collaborators included Tara Aisha Willis, Jessica Pretty, Leslie Cuyjet, and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste.{{Cite web|url=https://movementresearch.org/publications/critical-correspondence/tara-aisha-willis-leslie-cuyjet-jess-pretty-and-jeremy-toussaint-baptiste-what-remains|title=Tara Aisha Willis, Leslie Cuyjet, Jess Pretty, and|last=Studio|first=Familiar|date=2019-04-02|website=Movement Research|language=en|access-date=2019-04-02|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043914/https://movementresearch.org/publications/critical-correspondence/tara-aisha-willis-leslie-cuyjet-jess-pretty-and-jeremy-toussaint-baptiste-what-remains|url-status=live}} The work premiered at Bard College, and has been performed at national venues, including Danspace in New York, the Walker Art Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art Warehouse Space. In an interview with Rawls, Rankine described how text and language were manipulated in the performance: "As a writer, you spend a lot of time trying to get all of these words to communicate a feeling or to communicate an action, and to be able to get rid of the words but still hold the feeling was stunning to me."{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfn6t--zgSI|title=Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls Interview, 2018|website=YouTube|date=March 8, 2019 |access-date=March 23, 2019|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043919/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfn6t--zgSI|url-status=live}}

= The Racial Imaginary Institute =

The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII) is an interdisciplinary collective established in 2017 by Rankine using funds from her 2016 MacArthur Grant.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/claudia-rankines-home-for-the-racial-imaginary|title=Claudia Rankine's Home for the Racial Imaginary|last=Charlton|first=Lauretta|date=January 19, 2017|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2019-03-09|language=en|issn=0028-792X|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043921/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/claudia-rankines-home-for-the-racial-imaginary|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/whiteness-works-racial-imaginary-institute-kitchen/|title=How Whiteness Works: The Racial Imaginary Institute at the Kitchen|last=Cornum|first=Lou|date=July 23, 2018|website=Art in America|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-09}} TRII is a think tank for artists and writers who study whiteness and examine race as a construct.{{Cite news|url=https://www.artforum.com/slant/claudia-rankine-on-the-racial-imaginary-institute-67312|title=New World Disorder: Claudia Rankine|date=March 21, 2017|work=Artforum|access-date=March 9, 2019}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.artnews.com/2017/03/30/whitney-museum-to-partner-with-claudia-rankines-racial-imaginary-institute-for-discussion-about-dana-schutz-controversy/|title=Whitney Museum to Partner with Claudia Rankine's Racial Imaginary Institute for Discussion About Dana Schutz Controversy|last=Greenberger|first=Alex|date=March 30, 2017|work=ARTnews|access-date=March 9, 2019|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044046/https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/whitney-museum-to-partner-with-claudia-rankines-racial-imaginary-institute-for-discussion-about-dana-schutz-controversy-8039/|url-status=live}} Its mission is to convene "a cultural laboratory in which the racial imaginaries of our time and place are engaged, read, countered, contextualized and demystified."{{Cite web|url=https://theracialimaginary.org/|title=The Racial Imaginary Institute|website=theracialimaginary.org|access-date=March 9, 2019|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044124/https://theracialimaginary.org/|url-status=live}}

Rankine envisions the organization as occupying a physical space in Manhattan;{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/19/claudia-rankine-macarthur-genius-grant-exploring-whiteness|title=Claudia Rankine: why I'm spending $625,000 to study whiteness|last=Thrasher|first=Steven W.|date=2016-10-19|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-03-09|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=September 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905152109/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/19/claudia-rankine-macarthur-genius-grant-exploring-whiteness|url-status=live}} until that is possible, the institute is roving. In 2017, the Whitney Museum presented "Perspectives on Race and Representation: An Evening With the Racial Imaginary Institute" to address the debate sparked by Dana Schutz’s painting Open Casket.{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/WatchAndListen/1493?series=45|title=Perspectives on Race and Representation: An Evening With the Racial Imaginary Institute|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043917/https://whitney.org/media/1493?series=45|url-status=live}} In the summer of 2018, TRII presented "On Whiteness," an exhibition, symposium, library, residencies, and performances, at The Kitchen in New York.{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/452388/on-whiteness-the-kitchen/|title=How to Talk About Whiteness|last=Wong|first=Ryan|date=2018-07-24|website=Hyperallergic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043920/https://hyperallergic.com/452388/on-whiteness-the-kitchen/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://theseenjournal.org/art-seen-national/to-watch-and-be-watched/|title=To Watch and Be Watched|last=Landesberg|first=Paige|date=2018-09-26|website=THE SEEN {{!}} Chicago's International Online Journal|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044126/https://theseenjournal.org/to-watch-and-be-watched/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://thekitchen.org/event/on-whiteness-exhibition|title=The Kitchen: On Whiteness: Exhibition|website=thekitchen.org|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044104/https://thekitchen.org/event/on-whiteness-exhibition|url-status=live}}

Awards and honors

1994: Cleveland State Poetry Prize for Nothing in Nature is Private.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
2005: Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for distinguished poetic achievement
2014: National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) winner for Citizen: An American Lyric{{cite web|url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-its-finalists-for-publishing-year-20|title=National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014|date=January 19, 2015|publisher=National Book Critics Circle|access-date=January 29, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122224418/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-its-finalists-for-publishing-year-20|archive-date=January 22, 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/books/lila-by-marilynne-robinson-honored-as-top-fiction-by-national-book-critics-circle.html |title='Lila' Honored as Top Fiction by National Book Critics Circle |work=The New York Times |author=Alexandra Alter |date=March 12, 2015 |access-date=March 12, 2015 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043919/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/books/lila-by-marilynne-robinson-honored-as-top-fiction-by-national-book-critics-circle.html |url-status=live }}
2014: National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) finalist for Citizen: An American Lyric
2014: California Book Awards Poetry Finalist for Citizen: An American Lyric{{cite web|url=http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/special-events/california-book-awards|title=84th Annual California Book Awards Winners|publisher=Commonwealth Club|access-date=August 13, 2015|archive-date=June 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606132602/http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/special-events/california-book-awards|url-status=live}}
2014: Jackson Poetry Prize (awarded by Poets & Writers)[https://www.pw.org/files/videos/rankine_jackson_prize_pr.pdf "Claudia Rankine Wins $50,000 Jackson Poetry Prize"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044103/https://www.pw.org/files/videos/rankine_jackson_prize_pr.pdf |date=February 15, 2021 }}, Poets & Writers, April 21, 2014.
2015: PEN Open Book Award for Citizen{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/blog/announcing-2015-pen-literary-award-winners |title=2015 PEN Literary Award Winners |publisher=PEN |date=May 8, 2015 |access-date=March 2, 2016 |archive-date=March 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160302024558/http://www.pen.org/blog/announcing-2015-pen-literary-award-winners |url-status=live }}
2015: PEN Center USA Poetry Award: for Citizen: An American LyricCarolyn Kellogg, [http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-pen-literary-award-winners-20150910-story.html?dlvrit=717819 "Claudia Rankine and Meghan Daum lead 2015 PEN Literary Awards"], Los Angeles Times, September 10, 2015.
2015: New York Times Bestseller for Citizen: An American Lyric{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2015-01-18/paperback-nonfiction/list.html|title=Best Sellers|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 18, 2015|access-date=March 1, 2017|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215044036/https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2015/01/18/paperback-nonfiction/|url-status=live}}
2015: Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry for Citizen: An American Lyric{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-book-prizes-20150418-story.html|title=The winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are ...|author=Carolyn Kellogg|website=Los Angeles Times|date=April 18, 2015|access-date=October 7, 2015|archive-date=July 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701153616/http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-book-prizes-20150418-story.html|url-status=live}}
2015: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry for Citizen: An American Lyric{{cite web|url=http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/winners-of-the-46th-naacp-image-awards|title=Winners of the '46th NAACP Image Awards'|publisher=NAACP|date=February 10, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622060102/http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/winners-of-the-46th-naacp-image-awards|archive-date=June 22, 2016|df=mdy-all}}
2015: Forward Prize for Citizen: An American Lyric[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34389370 "Claudia Rankine's 'exhilarating' poetry wins Forward prize"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043920/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34389370 |date=February 15, 2021 }}, BBC News, September 29, 2015.Tristram Fane Saunders (September 30, 2015), [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/claudia-rankine-wins-forward-prize-with-book-of-prose-poems/ "Claudia Rankine wins £10,000 Forward prize with book of prose poems"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043915/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/claudia-rankine-wins-forward-prize-with-book-of-prose-poems/ |date=February 15, 2021 }}, The Telegraph.
2016: MacArthur Fellowship.
2016 United States Artist Zell Fellowship.
2016: Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Citizen: An American Lyric{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/books/claudia-rankine-wins-bobbitt-poetry-prize.html|title=Claudia Rankine Wins Bobbitt Poetry Prize|work=The New York Times |date=March 28, 2017 |access-date=2018-11-02|language=en|archive-date=February 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043921/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/books/claudia-rankine-wins-bobbitt-poetry-prize.html|url-status=live |last1=Chow |first1=Andrew R. }}
2017: Colgate University, Honorary Doctor of Letters, May 21, 2017.Daniel DeVries (February 28, 2017), [http://news.colgate.edu/2017/02/poet-claudia-rankine-to-deliver-2017-commencement-keynote.html/ "Poet Claudia Rankine to deliver 2017 commencement keynote"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043940/https://www.colgate.edu/news/stories/poet-claudia-rankine-deliver-2017-commencement-keynote |date=February 15, 2021 }}, Colgate University News.
2017: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/claudia-rankine/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Claudia Rankine|website=www.gf.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-19}}
2020: Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences{{cite web|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/claudia-rankine|title=AmAcad|access-date=2023-06-18}}
2021: Elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer{{cite web|url=https://rsliterature.org/inaugural-rsl-international-writers-announced/|title=Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced|website=Royal Society of Literature|date= November 30, 2021|access-date= December 3, 2023}}

Selected publications

{{cite book |first=Claudia |last=Rankine |author-mask=2 |title=Nothing in Nature Is Private |publisher=Cleveland State University Poetry Center |year=1994 |isbn=9781880834091}}
{{cite book |first=Claudia |last=Rankine |author-mask=2 |title=Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric |publisher=Graywolf Press |year=2004 |isbn=9781555974077}}
{{cite book |first=Claudia |last=Rankine |author-mask=2 |title=The End of the Alphabet |publisher=Grove Press |year=1998 |isbn=9780802198532 |url=}}
{{cite book |first=Claudia |last=Rankine |author-mask=2 |title=Plot |publisher=Grove Press |year=2001 |isbn=9780802198525 |url=}}
{{cite book |first=Claudia |last=Rankine |author-mask=2 |title=Citizen: An American Lyric |publisher=Graywolf Press |year=2014 |isbn=9781555973483}}
{{cite book |first=Claudia |last=Rankine |author-mask=2 |title=The White Card: A Play |publisher=Graywolf Press |year=2019 |isbn=9781555978396}}
{{cite book |first=Claudia |last=Rankine |author-mask=2 |title=Just Us: An American Conversation |publisher=Allen Lane |year=2020 |isbn=9780241467107}}

References

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|video1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141227194400/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/interviews/claudia-rankine/ Interview] w/Tavis Smiley, December 8, 2014; c. 15 minutes.

|video2=[http://www.c-span.org/video/?325092-2/claudia-rankine-citizen-american-lyric Book Discussion on Citizen: An American Lyric], C-SPAN, April 19, 2015

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{{Official website|http://claudiarankine.com/}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928080348/http://www.blueflowerarts.com/crankine.html Claudia Rankine, Poet] – at Blue Flower Arts
[https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/claudia-rankine Claudia Rankine poems, essays, and interviews] at Poets.org
Claudia Rankine, [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/magazine/the-condition-of-black-life-is-one-of-mourning.html?_r=0 "'The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning'"], The New York Times, June 22, 2015
Claudia Rankine, [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/magazine/the-meaning-of-serena-williams.html "The Meaning of Serena Williams"], The New York Times, August 25, 2015
Claudia Rankine, [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/books/review/amiri-barakas-s-o-s.html Amiri Baraka's 'S O S'], The New York Times Book Review, February 11, 2015
Claudia Rankine, [http://bombmagazine.org/article/10096/claudia-rankine Interview with Lauren Berlant] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915123521/http://bombmagazine.org/article/10096/claudia-rankine |date=September 15, 2017 }} in Bomb magazine, Issue 129, October 1, 2014
Paula Cocozza, [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/29/poet-claudia-rankine-invisibility-black-women-everyday-racism-citizen "Poet Claudia Rankine: 'The invisibility of black women is astounding'"], The Guardian, June 29, 2015
[https://vimeo.com/channels/situations Situation Videos] – video essays on contemporary issues
[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/469 Academy of American Poets site] – Her site includes an excerpt from Don't Let Me Be Lonely
[https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Rankine.php PennSound page]: audio and video
[https://theracialimaginary.org/ The Racial Imaginary Institute] - official website