Synopsis "America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us … Continue reading The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
As Toni Morrison said in her review of Between the World and Me this "is required reading." Ta-Nehisi Coates' book is beautifully written in the form of a letter to his teenage son. Coates' considers the state of race in America in a way that is unforgiving and honest and exactly the kind of way that is needed right now. … Continue reading Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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