Coates powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective-the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president. This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period-and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation's old and unreconciled history.
Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. White supremacy has been around so long that whites are effectively trapped in their historical identities.Get the Summary of Ta-Nehisi Coates's We Were Eight Years in Power in 20 minutes. Coates highlights the aftermath of the impact of white supremacy on black lives by pointing to gentrification, a contemporary phenomenon, and older forms of discrimination like Jim Crow laws. Plunder offers an in to some understanding of the rage African Americans feel as they contemplate the aftermath of history and and the refusal of whites to reckon with that history.
Coates expands the idea of plunder in "Notes from the Fourth Year." According to Coates, "America is literally unimaginable without plundered labor shackles to plundered land, without the organizing principle of whiteness as citizenship, without the culture crafted by the plundered, and without that culture itself being plundered" (86).
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