Week 10.1: Claudia Rankine, Citizen



Reading:
Rankine, Citizen, 82-135


Study Questions:
1. Do some quick informal research on the following items:

  • Hurricane Katrina Coverage
  • Trayvon Martin
  • James Craig Anderson
  • Jena Six
  • Mark Duggan
  • Stop-and-Frisk
  • Long form birth certificate 
  • Mark Duggan
  • Zinedine Zidane
Write a sentence about each of these terms. Then, select two of the terms and why you think Rankine decided to write about them in this section.

2.  Most of today's reading consists of scripts for Situation videos that Rankine collaborated on with her husband, the visual artist John Lucas. Up above is one of the videos. Write a paragraph about how the visuals interact with the audio.