Mar 25 2018
Book-to-Action: Community Reading & Conversation of

Book-to-Action: Community Reading & Conversation of "Citizen"

Presented by Ukiah Library at Ukiah Library

The Mendocino County Library, Ukiah branch is hosting:

Book-to-Action Event Series

Community Reading & Conversation –

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Sunday, March 25th 2-5 pm

The Mendocino County Library has been awarded a Book-to-Action grant through the California State Library for a multi-part program around engaging our community in meaningful conversations about race, racism, racial micro-aggressions, white privilege, and structural inequality.

Claudia Rankine’s book Citizen: An American Lyric is an innovative work of poetry, prose, and visual images that addresses racism in America. Rankine introduces the concept of micro-aggressions, or small instances of racism in everyday encounters. Some of these are slights, seemingly slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in public and private life, in sports, online, on TV, everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak, perform, and stay alive, and Rankine’s work puts you into this space. The book has won many awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the Forward Prize for Best Collection (UK), the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, and the PEN Open Book Award. It has sold over 180,000 copies since its October 2014 publication.

The Ukiah Library will be providing community-members with a free, brand-new copy of the book. Interested community members may pick up their copy at the front desk of the Ukiah Library.

Dates & Times

2018/03/25 - 2018/03/25

Location Info

Ukiah Library

105 N. Main Street, Ukiah, CA 95482