Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates

$100.00

Slavery, the Fear and Control of Black Bodies, and the Racialized Roots of American Wealth

One of America’s leading public intellectuals, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the history and legacy of race relations in America in Between the World and Me. Written as a letter to his young son, the book takes an urgent look at race in America. In 2015, it won National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction.

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Thursdays , April 6 - 27 || 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Citizen Coffee || 3636 N. Mississippi Ave
$100 || Space limited to 15 students

Taught by Taylor Steele

One of America’s leading public intellectuals, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the history and legacy of race relations in America in Between the World and Me. Written as a letter to his young son, the book takes an urgent look at race in America. In 2015, it won National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction.

Coates is a national correspondent at The Atlantic and a 2015 recipient of the MacArthur "Genuis" Fellowship. He writes with a bracing honesty about slavery, housing discrimination, the fear and control of black bodies, and the racialized roots of American wealth. Coates' work in The Atlantic, along with responses from The National Review, will be the basis of our inquiries and discussions.

Week 1:  "The Case for Reparations"

Week 2:  “Letter to My Son”

Week 3:  "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration"

Week 4:  Class choice.

Photo credit: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Taylor Steele is a renewable energy professional based in the Portland area. She is dedicated to diversity and equity work across the white-male dominated sustainability industry. At work, she is engaged in a diversity workgroup geared at creating and improving diversity, equity and inclusion across the company. She is also active in many local POC networks including but not limited to, Urban League of Portland (ULPDXYP) and Environmental Professionals of Color (EPOC).