We were eight years in power : an American tragedy / by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

A portrait of the historic Barack Obama era features essays originally published in "The Atlantic," including "Fear of a Black President" and "The Case for Reparations," as well as new essays revisiting each year of the Obama administration. ""We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : One World, [2017]
Subjects:
African Americans > Politics and government > 21st cenury.
United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
Obama, Barack.
United States > Race relations > History > 21st century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
United States > Race relations.
United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
2000-2099
Essays.
Genre:
Essays.
Physical Description:xvii, 367 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Notes from the first year : "this is how we lost to the white man"
  • Notes from the second year : American girl
  • Notes from the third year : why do so few blacks study the Civil War?
  • Notes from the fourth year : the legacy of Malcolm X
  • Notes from the fifth year : fear of a black president
  • Notes from the sixth year : the case for reparations
  • Notes from the seventh year : the black family in the age of mass incarceration
  • Notes from the eighth year : my president was black
  • Epilogue.