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I need you please describe what do you know about this course and the book in only 3
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African diaspora or Africans in diaspora refers to Africans who moved to America and Europe. It
describes mass dispersion of Africans as slaves during transatlantic slave trade that occurred between
1500s and 1800s, Coates, 2015. This term is mostly referred to African Americans’ and many people like
Coates Marcus Garvey believed that every black person had an origin in Africa and should thrive to find
his roots.
The book Between the World and Me was published in 2015 by Spiegel and Grau and was written by Ta-
Nehisi Coates. Coates was inspired by the recent work of James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time written in
1963 and he wondered why nobody no longer wrote like Baldwin. The book is a letter the author writes
to his teenage son about the feelings symbolism and realities that a black person face while in the
United States, Coates, 2015. He explains about the violence triggered by racism that has become an
American culture. He talks about established institutions like schools, police and even the blocks
exposes the blacks to violence. The whites are seen to be supreme and the blacks seem not to be able to
evade their wrath.
Coates met with the thereby sitting president Obama and they discussed about racial disparity policy in
the universal health care rollout. They seemed not to agree and even president Obama had to call him
privately to iron one or two things out after their discussion. Coates had blogged in response to
president Obama urging the African Americans’ to be more responsible citizens, Coates, 2015. His blog
was criticizing the president and the president thought it was unjust. From reading the work of James
Baldwin who also met with Robert Kennedy and from inspiration from his wife, Coates wrote the book
Between the World and Me.
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Coates, T. N. (2015). Between the world and me. Text publishing.

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