![]() ![]() Its a lack of feeling for another that is our problem, Rankine writes. Too often we are expected to hide pain, an expectation that Milstein calls a lie manufactured so as to mask and uphold the social order that produces our many, unnecessary losses.įollowing Hart, Claudia Rankines The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning goes deep into the deaths of Emmett Till, Michael Brown, the six black women and three black men killed by Dylann Roof at Emanuel African Methodist Church in 2015, the four black girls killed in the 16 th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, and others, noting the dangerous ways the white imagination views black people (black bodies), historically and presently, as property and subsequently three-fifths human. This collection was borne out of personal pain, which is inseparable from the pain of this world as Milstein writes in the prologue. ![]()
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