Her writing has brought her very far from where she came. The more that she noticed what her mother meant by this, the more she became an advocate for these communities. And two - and she did say this to me - you cannot trust white people.” “When we came to the United States, my mother said - she had two things, two things that she believed, in any case. Rankine describes this in an interview with On Being.

According to the NewStatesman,”The Jamaican-born poet Claudia Rankine has reversed the way we frame and talk about race by focusing not on black victimhood, but on the construction of whiteness.” CLAUDIA RANKINE, IMMIGRANTĪs an immigrant, Rankine’s mother taught her a lot before coming to the U.S. Rankine makes it a goal of hers to bring light to the injustices that people of color face. These Colleges were Williams College and Columbia University. and found her love for poetry at the colleges that she attended. CLAUDIA RANKINE, TCKĪccording to the website “On Being” Rankine is an immigrant and it wasn’t until she was 7-years-old when she moved the the United States. Author photo of Claudia Rankine taken by John Lucas and used by permission of the photographer.

specifically, and provides stories and visuals on what they experience. Her work aims to bring light to the injustices that Black and Brown people face in the U.S. Rankine has published many books, poems and is even working on some plays. Claudia Rankine is a United States-based poet who was born in Kingston, Jamaica.

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