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Claudia Rankine, Author of “Citizen,” Wins MacArthur “Genius Grant”

HeadlineSep 23, 2016

And the award-winning poet Claudia Rankine has won this year’s MacArthur “Genius Grant.” Rankine is best known for her 2014 book “Citizen,” an exploration of race, which New Yorker reviewer Hilton Als described as “the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities—’mistaken’ identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life—are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it’s the truth.”

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