Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Race, Class and Society


Bernie Sanders and the Liberal Imagination
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 24 January 2016   

Why Bernie Sanders Is Right to Oppose Reparations
There are lots of principled reasons that an anti-racist socialist might not favor the policy.
Conor Friedersdorf,  The Atlantic, 25 January 2016

Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?
The Vermont senator’s political imagination is active against plutocracy, but why is it so limited against white supremacy?
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 24 January 2016   

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The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 24 June 2014  


A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts
The idea that President Obama has aided poor black people through a broad race-blind expansion of the social safety net deserves some scrutiny.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 3 October 2013  

A Rising Tide Lifts Mostly Yachts
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 17 September 2013  

A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts
Why class-based social policy doesn't address African Americans' problems
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 14 June 2013  

The American Case Against a Black Middle Class
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 22 January 2013  


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Reviews of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Text, 152 pp, £10.99, September 2015, ISBN 978 1 925240 70 2


The Anger of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Darryl Pinckney, New York Review of Books, 11 February 2016

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/11/the-anger-of-ta-nehisi-coates/

Loaded Dice
Thomas Chatterton Williams, London Review of Books, 3 December 2015
pages 15-18 | 4355 words

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