Plunder/Piracy
Coates uses the metaphor of plunder and piracy to talk about how America stole the assets of African Americans for years without remorse for the country's benefit.
Coates uses the metaphor of plunder and piracy to talk about how America stole the assets of African Americans for years without remorse for the country's benefit.
The Question and Answer section for The Case for Reparations is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
One of the key elements to understanding Coates' arguments is that the problems he describes are systemic, meaning that they can be present in multiple facets of society and that it is a problem faced by the vast majority of a group. For example,...
Clyde Ross's childhood in the Jim Crow South is unfortunately not very unique. Living in Mississippi at the time, Black families were constantly subject to all different forms of legal and social harassment and subjugation. Though Coates does not...
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