An Evening with Claudia Rankine

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Aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. MacArthur Fellow and Yale Professor Claudia Rankine asks: how can we best approach one another across our differences?

The first and only poet to write a New York Times bestseller, the winner of every significant literary prize in the United States, and recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant,” Jamaican-born Claudia Rankine is an icon of contemporary American letters.

In this conversation, she will explore her own prejudices and those of others, and celebrate vulnerability, openness and the willingness to be wrong.

Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as her guiding light, Claudia will consider a series of real encounters with friends and strangers—each disrupting the false comfort of spaces where our public and private lives intersect, like the airport, the theatre, the dinner party and the voting booth.

It’s an urgent call to enter into conversations which could offer humane pathways through this moment of division.

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