99-132 “For the men who needed to believe themselves white, the bodies were the key to a social club, and the right to break the bodies was the mark of civilization. ‘The two great divisions of so...
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Category: Coates Reading Questions
Pgs 72-99 “I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth” (Coates 78). Why might Coates see the k...
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31-71 The Mecca? Why does Coates refer to Howard University as his Mecca? What does he mean by “the crossroads of the black diaspora” (40)? In your explanation, be sure to include a quote from Coa...
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1-39 “Race is the child of racism, not the father” (7). Let’s puzzle through what Coates might mean by this. To do so, we need to grasp a bit of how the idea of White as a race emerged – and h...
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