[Unedited] Claudia Rankine with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

The poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine says every conversation about race doesn’t need to be about racism. But she says all of us — and especially white people — need to find a way to talk about it, even when it gets uncomfortable. Her bestselling book, “Citizen: An American Lyric,” catalogued the painful daily experiences of lived racism for people of color. Claudia models how it’s possible to bring that reality into the open — not to fight, but to draw closer. And she shows how we can do this with everyone, from our intimate friends to strangers on airplanes. Claudia Rankine is the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University and founder of The Racial Imaginary Institute. She is the author of five collections of poetry including “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely.” Her plays include “The Provenance of Beauty” and “The White Card.” This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Claudia Rankine — How Can I Say This so We Can Stay in This Car Together?” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.8	the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:07.7	Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding principle and animating force
0:12.2	for our lives.
0:13.6	A powerful love that helps us live in sacred relationship with ourselves, others, and
0:18.3	the natural world.
0:19.8	Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:23.0	I'm Christa Tippett and this is On Being's Unheard Cut.
0:26.8	Next, my Unedited Conversation with Poet and Playwright Claudia Rankin.
0:32.2	There is a shorter, produced version of this wherever you get your podcasts.
0:37.7	Hi everybody.
0:40.7	Good evening and welcome to a live taping of On Being with Christa Tippett, which is
0:43.9	the opening event for the WNYC Work It Festival.
0:47.5	I'm Allison Stewart from WNYC.
0:49.4	Hi everybody.
0:50.4	We're so excited to see so many of you, a sold out enthusiastic crowd.
0:56.3	We're going to have a spectacular event tonight.
0:58.8	And I have to be honest, I'm really happy that I made it here tonight.
1:01.3	A few months ago, I was asked, you guys, you want to be part of the Work It Festival
1:04.2	Allison?
1:05.2	I said, I have this little problem.
1:06.5	I have to launch a live radio show in a week.
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