by lindaoppenheim | Mar 13, 2023
Paul Muldoon moderates a discussion with Broadway actor and mime Bill Bowers, cartoonist for The New Yorker E.S. Glenn, and poet and playwright Claudia Rankine. Advance tickets required. Reserve free tickets through University Ticketing
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 14, 2017 | Opinion
Poet and essayist, Claudia Rankine, answers the question in her New York Times piece. “The horror we seem to only now be noticing is an effect of our country’s longstanding commitment to white supremacy. But I am unclear about when we ever lived without its...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 28, 2017 | Events
Poet Claudia Rankine, visiting professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, will give the annual Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Lecture “On Whiteness and the Racial Imaginary Institute” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 1, in...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 3, 2017 | interview
Poet and MacArthur genius grant winner Claudia Rankine explains her motivation and plans for the Racial Imaginary Institute. “She wants it to be a ‘space which allows us to show art, to curate dialogues, have readings, and talk about the ways in which the...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 25, 2015 | Article
In the New York Times, poet and professor Claudia Rankine says, “Though the white liberal imagination likes to feel temporarily bad about black suffering, there really is no mode of empathy that can replicate the daily strain of knowing that as a black person...
