What Happened When Claudia Rankine Talked to White Men About Privilege

09/12/2019 51 min
What Happened When Claudia Rankine Talked to White Men About Privilege

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Episode Synopsis

Poet, playwright, and Yale University professor Claudia Rankine was at the American Academy in Berlin as a Distinguished Visitor in early November 2019, to deliver the John W. Kluge lecture. Academy producer Tony Andrews sat down with Rankine to discuss the various dynamics at work in the conversations she quotes in her forthcoming book, Just Us, a collection of essays that critically engages with the conversation as a racialized space.

Host: R. Jay Magill
Producer: Tony Andrews
Photo: Annette Hornischer