James Craig Anderson was a middle-aged African American man who was killed in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2011 by a young white man who—along with his friends—robbed and beat Anderson before running him over with a truck. The murder was declared a hate crime. Rankine dedicates one of the sections of Citizen to the memory of Anderson.
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Chapter 6
In yet another script for a “situation video”—this one called “In Memory of James Craig Anderson ”—a speaker considers the trajectory of a particular pickup truck, suggesting that this truck is...
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