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Part I (Pages 1- 69)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Rankine, Claudia. Just Us: An American Conversation. Graywolf Press, New York, 2020.

• This book is written from the first-person perspective and in a mix of the past and present tenses, often within the same sections. It also includes images, pull-quotes on facing pages, and some original poetry.

• Rankine opens the book with an original poems in which she repeats the phrase "what if?" asking questions about social change, reproach, and what we can hope to learn about each other through conversations.

• Rankine examines the theme of justice and how conversations work in terms of being open to other people's perspectives and experiences.

• The next section is titled "liminal spaces i."

• Rankine recounts her experiences in the run-up to the 2016 election, during which she was teaching a class at Yale University on race...

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