Movement and Collaboration: Claudia Rankine in Conversation with Shamel Pitts
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About the Event:
Join us as we experience poet and Yale professor Claudia Rankine and choreographer Shamel Pitts in conversation and performance. Rankine is not only the New York Times bestseller of Citizen: An American Lyric, but a MacArthur Fellow, playwright, and author of the newly released Dont Let Me Be Lonely. She brings her unique perspective on race and racism in America to Chicago Humanities and joins Pitts for a dynamic discussion.
Chicago Humanities’ Social Justice & Equity Series is generously supported by Allstate and ITW
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Claudia Rankine
Co-founder; Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry
Claudia Rankine is the author of six books, including The White Card: A Play, Citizen: An American Lyric, and Just...
Shamel Pitts
Choreographer, Dancer, Artist
2020 Guggenheim Fellow Shamel Pitts is a performance artist, choreographer, conceptual artist, dancer, spoken word arti...
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Movement and Collaboration: Claudia Rankine in Conversation with Shamel Pitts
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