Ep. 20 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates -- The Stacks Book Club (Jay Connor)

We're thrilled to have writer and host of The Extraordinary Negroes Podcast, Jay Connor, back with us this week for The Stacks Book Club,  discussing Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. This episode is spent talking about the three major themes from the book: race, violence, and the Black body, and how those themes are ever present in American society. There are no spoilers this week.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coate

• James Baldwin

• Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic

• We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

• The Hate U Give (20th Century Fox)

• "We Blaxplain Blaxplaining" (Still Processing, The New York Times)

• Blindspotting (Lionsgate)

• Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Pictures)

• Scandal (ABC)

• Ranier Maningding

• @theLLAG (Twitter for Love Life of an Asian Guy)

• "The Toxic World-View of Ta-Nehisi Coates" (Rich Lowry, Politico)

• "The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi Coates" (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New York Magazine)

• Cornell West

• Michael Eric Dyson

• Race Matters by Cornell West

• Black Lives Matter

• Toni Morrison

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