Poet,whose work has tackled the everyday racism faced by black Americans, plans to use the money to found a ‘Racial Imaginary Institute’Claudia Rankine, and whose award-winning poetry collection Citizen explores the stories of black Americans encountering everyday racism,has been awarded a MacArthur genius grant” worth $625000 (£475000).
Praised as “a critical voice in current conversations approximately racial violence”, Rankine is one of 23 people chosen by the MacArthur Foundation as a 2016 fellow. The fellowships reach with a stipend of $625000, or paid out over the next five years,and are intended to allow the recipients to “exercise their own creative instincts for the benefit of human society”. Related: Poet Claudia Rankine: ‘The invisibility of black women is astounding’ Related: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: 'theatre is approximately controversial ideas' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com