We Were Eight Years in Power

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We Were Eight Years in Power
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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
Subject Race in the United States
Publisher One World
Publication date
October 3, 2017
Pages416
ISBN 978-0-399-59056-6 [1]

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy is a 2017 collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates originally published in 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 is introduced with the author's reflections. [1]

Contents

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'" [3]
  2. "American Girl" [4]
  3. "Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?" [5]
  4. "The Legacy of Malcolm X" [6]
  5. "Fear of a Black President" [7]
  6. "The Case for Reparations" [8]
  7. "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration" [9]
  8. "My President Was Black" [10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rev. of We Were Eight Years in Power". Publishers Weekly . August 14, 2017. Retrieved October 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ Howorth, Claire (November 21, 2017). "The Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017". Time . Retrieved December 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "'This Is How We Lost to the White Man'" . The Atlantic . No. May 2008. Archived from the original on July 8, 2025. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  4. ↑ Coates, Ta-Nehisi (January 1, 2009). "American Girl" . The Atlantic . No. January/February 2009. Archived from the original on June 29, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  5. ↑ Coates, Ta-Nehisi (December 8, 2011). "Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?" . The Atlantic . No. The Civil War (Special Commemorative Issue). Archived from the original on July 7, 2025. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  6. ↑ Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "The Legacy of Malcolm X" . The Atlantic . No. May 2011. Archived from the original on July 17, 2025. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  7. ↑ Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "Fear of a Black President" . The Atlantic . No. September 2012. Archived from the original on August 24, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  8. ↑ Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "The Case for Reparations" . The Atlantic . No. June 2014. Archived from the original on July 27, 2025. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  9. ↑ Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration" . The Atlantic . No. October 2015. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  10. ↑ Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "My President Was Black" . The Atlantic . No. January/February 2017. Archived from the original on December 13, 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2025.

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