Just Us: An American Conversation
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In Citizen, Claudia Rankine wrote: “Because white men can’t / police their imagination / black people are dying.”
In her follow-up book, Just Us: An American Conversation, Rankine comes back to her exploration of conversation and the racial imaginary of the United States. Through the practice of making conversation, creating an entangled empathy, the book interrogates Whiteness and the state of relating to others. Rankine provides an example of a process with which all of us can explore our American story.
Host Aubrey Hicks is joined by LaVonna Lewis, Olivia Olson, Sumun Pendakur, and David Sloane.

Thank you to our co-producers Aubrey Hicks and Jonathan Schwartz as well as our beloved sound supervisors, The Brothers Hedden. Recorded at the USC Price School.
Links ...
- Sumun Pendakur
- Social Justice at USC Price
- 'Disappointed' disbanded University of Iowa committee makes suggestions for next diversity search
- University of Iowa resumes diversity training after pause
- "Diversity" Training Executive Order
- Taylor Mac
- Fountain Theatre, Citizen Live Reading
- Ethical Loneliness