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TA-NEHSI COATES

Currently, Coates serves as a national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he has published groundbreaking articles on race and racism including “The Case for Reparations.” His writings have also been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington City Paper and Philadelphia Weekly. Coates received a “Genius Grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2015. Between the World and Me was awarded the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle and Between the World and Me.

Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780679645986
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

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Recommended Reading

Articles and Court Opinions

Vox Policy & Politics - You need to read Sonia Sotomayor’s devastating, Ta-Nehisi Coates-citing Supreme Court dissent

Citation

Massie, V.M.(2016, June 20). You need to read Sonia Sotomayor’s devastating, Ta-Nehisi Coates-citing Supreme Court dissent.Retrieved from: https://www.vox.com/2016/6/20/11976560/sonia-sotomayor-dissent-supreme-court

Supreme Court of the United States Utah v. Strieff No. 14–1373

Citation

Utah v. Strieff, No. No. 14–1373. (June 20, 2016). Retrieved from https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-1373_83i7.pdf

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ISBN: 9781783601615
Publication Date: 2015-01-08
In this era where nearly everyone at least pays lip service to the importance of multiculturalism, why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? Why does racism still persist--and how does it strike at the foundations of multiculturalism? Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, Debating Cultural Hybridity examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in our ever-more-connected, yet crisis-ridden and xenophobic world. Taking as its starting point the fact that personal identities are themselves multicultural, the contributors illuminate the complexity and flexibility of culture and identity, defining their potential openness as well as their closures, to show why anti-racism and multiculturalism remain so difficult to fight for, even today.
Good White People by Shannon Sullivan
ISBN: 9781438451688
Publication Date: 2014-06-01
Argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism.