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A review by domskeac
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
5.0
I’m a big Coates fan, so I had read most of these essays as they came out, and I was even assigned two of them in both of my grad schools. I thought the re-release with this curation and his reflections on each at the beginning of each year was worth it to republish as a retrospective, knowing what would follow those eight years in power.
This re-read had me reflecting a lot on how my graduate degrees—one which had a predominantly Black student body—were so very influenced by the fact that my education occurred during the “eight years in power.” (I graduated from that specific school in 2016.) It was good to be in conversation with these works again. Coates is one of the great writers of our time.
This re-read had me reflecting a lot on how my graduate degrees—one which had a predominantly Black student body—were so very influenced by the fact that my education occurred during the “eight years in power.” (I graduated from that specific school in 2016.) It was good to be in conversation with these works again. Coates is one of the great writers of our time.