We Were Eight Years in Power

We Were Eight Years in Power
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
Subject Race in the United States
Published October 3, 2017 (One World)
Pages 416
ISBN 978-0-399-59056-6 [1]

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy is a collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates originally from The Atlantic magazine between 2008 and 2016 over the course of the American Barack Obama administration. It includes the titles that launched his career: "The Case for Reparations" and "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration". Each of the essays are introduced with the author's reflections.[1]

Time magazine listed We Were Eight Years in Power as one of its top ten non-fiction books of 2017.[2]

Essays

  1. 'This Is How We Lost to the White Man'
  2. American Girl
  3. Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?
  4. The Legacy of Malcolm X
  5. Fear of a Black President
  6. The Case for Reparations
  7. The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
  8. My President Was Black

References

  1. 1 2 "Rev. of We Were Eight Years in Power". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ Howorth, Claire (November 21, 2017). "The Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017". Time. Retrieved December 13, 2017.

Further reading

  • Senior, Jennifer (October 1, 2017). "Through the Lens of the Obama Years, Ta-Nehisi Coates Reckons With Race, Identity and Trump". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  • León, Concepción De (September 29, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  • Muyumba, Walton (September 29, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates blazes a singular intellectual path in 'We Were Eight Years in Power'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035.
  • Lozada, Carlos (September 27, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates and the fear of a black writer". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  • Green, Lloyd (September 27, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book a bitter lament that deserves to be heard". Fox News. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  • Nelson, Sean (September 7, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates's 'The First White President' Is Required Reading, No Matter How Sick You Are of DFT". The Stranger. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  • "'We Were 8 Years in Power': Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama, Trump & White Fear of 'Good Negro Government'". Democracy Now!. August 15, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  • Gettell, Oliver (June 12, 2017). "Ta-Nehisi Coates Unveils Cover for Obama-Era Book 'We Were Eight Years in Power'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  • Hassler, Chelsea (October 1, 2017). "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy". Popsugar. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  • Young, Kevin (November 3, 2017). "Between the Presidency and Him". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.


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