{"id":55019,"date":"2017-10-07T21:49:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T21:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55019"},"modified":"2017-10-07T21:51:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T21:51:27","slug":"we-were-eight-years-in-power-an-american-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55019","title":{"rendered":"We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

One World (An imprint of PenguinRandomHouse)
\n2017-10-03
\n400 pages
\n6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4
\nHardcover ISBN: ISBN 9780399590566
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780525624516
\nEbook ISBN: 9780399590580<\/p>\n

Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

In these \u201curgently relevant essays,\u201d* the National Book Award\u2013winning author of <\/em>Between the World and Me<\/a> \u201creflects on race, Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> presidency and its jarring aftermath\u201d*\u2014including the election of Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were eight years in power\u201d was the lament of Reconstruction-era<\/a> black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South<\/a>. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America\u2019s \u201cfirst white president<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period\u2014and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation\u2019s old and unreconciled history. Coates powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective\u2014the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office<\/a>, interviewing a president.<\/p>\n

We Were Eight Years in Power<\/em> features Coates\u2019s iconic essays first published in The Atlantic<\/em>, including \u201cFear of a Black President<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Case for Reparations,\u201d and \u201cThe Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,\u201d along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates\u2019s own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by a bracingly original assessment of the election that fully illuminated the tragedy of the Obama era. We Were Eight Years in Power<\/em> is a vital account of modern America, from one of the definitive voices of this historic moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In these \u201curgently relevant essays,\u201d* the National Book Award\u2013winning author of Between the World and Me \u201creflects on race, Barack Obama\u2019s presidency and its jarring aftermath\u201d*\u2014including the election of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1245,11,8,17,26,20],"tags":[21057,27558,6000],"class_list":["post-55019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-biography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-donald-trump","tag-one-world","tag-ta-nehisi-coates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55021,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55019\/revisions\/55021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}