Quote by Claudia Rankine: “You are not the guy and still you are the guy.”

This quote captures the paradoxical experience of racial profiling, where an individual is simultaneously recognized as unique yet stereotyped as part of a group, stripped of their individuality and burdened by collective assumptions. It describes the feeling of being 'othered'.

Explores the feeling of being generalized and othered in everyday racial encounters, where identity is both acknowledged and erased by racial assumptions and societal expectations.

Jamaican-American poet and essayist whose genre-bending collection Citizen: An American Lyric won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2014. Her work explores race, belonging, and the accumulation of everyday indignity with formal innovation.