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What is Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen about?

Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) is a chronicle of racial aggression and the continuum of violence in the United States. It is the second book in Rankine’s American trilogy, and it received both the PEN Open Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for poetry in 2015. Citizen was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry