This Is Us
Just Human
Black stories are most rewarded when they center blackness — which, in a certain sense, is to center whiteness
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6 min readDec 23, 2020
It is a cool autumn morning and I am perched on my couch, a coffee cup nearby, a few pages into Claudia Rankine’s newest book, Just Us: An American Conversation. My 14-year-old son saunters in and asks what I am reading…
