A meditation on racism - provocative, poetic, and a literary event in the USA. American author Claudia Rankine explores forms of racist aggression in everyday life and in the media. Some of these appear incidental, while others are deliberate attacks: in classrooms, at the supermarket, on the tennis court with Serena Williams, on the soccer field with Zinédine Zidane, online, on television. Rankine illustrates how people are cornered, how their ability to speak, to progress, and simply to exist is restricted. Citizen bears witness to the individual and collective consequences of behaviors once thought to be overcome. It is a total work of art composed of essayistic miniatures, poetry, and images. A New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award. This is Claudia Rankine's first book in the German language.