Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)

Ta-Nehisi Coates (born September 30, 1975 in Baltimore , Maryland , USA ) is an American journalist and author. He is best known for his articles in the monthly magazine The Atlantic , in which he addresses the problems of the Afro-American population and describes white supremacy , the supremacy of whites, as an ideology deeply rooted in American society.

Life

Ta-Nehisi Coates grew up in Baltimore as the son of a teacher and a publisher in an extended family. His father was a member of the Black Panther Party and founded the Black Classic Press , he worked as a librarian at the historically African-American Howard University . Coates studied five years without a degree at Howard University and began working as a journalist for the alternative newspaper Washington City Paper , where he was taken under his wing by cultural journalist David Carr . He wrote for a variety of newspapers, including Time Magazine and The Village Voice , until he was given space for a blog by The Atlantic monthly in January 2008 and later became the editor of major editorials .

In the same year be published autobiographical book The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and to Unlikely Road to Manhood (German: The beautiful fight: A father, two sons and an unlikely road to manhood ) about his growing up in Baltimore in the 1980s -Years shaped by his father, the crime and school problems that were widespread on the streets of the city.

From 2012 to 2014, Coates taught creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

2014 he attracted with the article The Case for Reparations (German: A plea for reparations ) in Atlantic sensation, in which he called for the US to its black population, given the centuries of slavery , the institutional racism and discriminatory housing policies reparations paid.

In 2015 he went to Paris for a year with his wife, whom he had met at Howard University, and their son as part of his American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship . Also in 2015 he won the so-called Genie Prize and became a MacArthur Fellow .

In his 2015 book, Between the World and Me (German: Between me and the world ) Coates clears his son in the form of letters about it on what it means to be a black man in the United States, where he in particular the "racist violence is woven into American culture ” (“ racist violence that has been woven into American culture ”). The book, which was inspired by James Baldwin's After the Flood, the Fire , achieved first place on the New York Times bestseller list and received the National Book Award in the non-fiction category in 2015 .

In September 2015, Marvel Comics announced that Coates would be the author of a new comic series about the character Black Panther . The first comics for which Coates wrote the lyrics appeared in 2016. A Coates spin-off of the Black Panther series was terminated in 2017 after only six issues had appeared. In 2018, Coates received the Eisner Award together with Roxane Gay and Alitha E. Martinez in the Best Completed Series category for Black Panther: World of Wakanda .

Since 2017, Coates has been Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism at New York University , teaching students and attending events.

In October 2017, a collection of seven essays that Coates had published in The Atlantic during the Obama presidency between 2008 and 2016 was published under the title We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (German: We were eight years in power : An American Tragedy ) in book form. Coates had met Obama four times for interviews during his presidency. The Time Magazine chose the book as one of the ten best non-fiction books of the year. In 2018 the book was also published in German.

In response to his articles about the Obama presidency he accused the also African-American intellectuals and university professor Cornel West in December 2017 an article in the Guardian in front of the "neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle" ( " neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle ") to be. Coates would “fetishize” White Supremacy and present it as unchangeable, which prevents a collective fight against the racist structures. In addition, Coates would wrongly praise Obama as a moral figure and thereby ignore what, among other things, his drone war wreaked havoc on Persons of Color outside the USA. He would also unjustifiably not include the questions of class , gender and sexual orientation in his analysis. After West's argument received a lot of approval, including in a tweet by White Supremacy activist Richard Spencer , Coates deleted his Twitter account .

In July 2018, Coates finally left his position at The Atlantic . In one of his late, much-received essays for the magazine, The First White President (German: The first white president ), throws Coates US President Trump ago, of an ideology of white supremacy motivated to be what precisely is the reason why Large sections of the insecure white population elected him for the purpose of correcting the first presidency of a successful black man.

Coates was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Asphalt sketches . Sundiata Publications, Baltimore no year. Poems.
  • The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood . Spiegel & Grau, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-385-52036-2
  • Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America . Spiegel & Grau, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-812-99354-7
  • We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. One World, 2017, ISBN 978-0-399-59056-6
    • We were eight years in power: An American Tragedy. Britt Somann-Jung in translation. Hanser, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-25910-2
  • The Water Dancer . New York 2019

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simon Kuper: This struggle is what America is , Interview in Financial Times , September 26, 2015, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Ta-Nehisi Coates: Takin off my coat, clearin my throat ... January 17, 2008, accessed March 6, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ Rich Benjamin: The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates review - subverting white expectations . In: The Guardian . September 1, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 6, 2019]).
  4. ↑ MIT SHASS: News - 2012 - Coates is MLK Visiting Scholar for 2012-13. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates dazzles during two years as at MLK Visiting Scholar. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ta-Nehisi Coates: The case for reparations In: The Atlantic , May, 2014.
  7. ↑ Promises of an Unwed Father . In: Oprah.com . ( oprah.com [accessed March 6, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Visiting Fellowship | American Library in Paris. Retrieved March 6, 2019 (American English).
  9. ↑ Ta-Nehisi Coates, 39, living in Washington, DC , NPR, September 29, 2017, accessed October 8, 2018
  10. ↑ Tobias Rüther: Ta-Nehisi Coates' bestseller: Is America a Racist Regime? ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 6, 2019]).
  11. ^ Nico Schulte-Ebbert: forces of nature. Ta-Nehisi Coates' startling essay "Between Me and the World" is about black bodies and white dreamers. In: literaturkritik.de. February 29, 2016, accessed December 17, 2019 .
  12. ^ Sukhdev Sandhu: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates review - a now exalted writer and spokesman for black America . In: The Guardian . October 8, 2015, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 6, 2019]).
  13. ^ Nash Jenkins: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Johnson Win National Book Awards , Time Magazine , Nov. 18, 2015.
  14. ↑ Albert Ching: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze Launch Marvel's New "Black Panther" Series. In: Comic Book Resources. comicbookresources.com, September 22, 2015, accessed April 24, 2016 .
  15. ^ Jacob Brogan: Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther Comic Is the Anti-Batman v Superman. April 8, 2016, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Alexander Nazaryan: Marvel has canceled Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Panther & The Crew comic after just two issues. May 15, 2017, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  17. ↑ 2010-Present. Retrieved on August 2, 2019 .
  18. ^ NYU: Author Ta-Nehisi Coates to Join Faculty of NYU's Carter Journalism Institute. January 30, 2017, accessed March 7, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Annette Gordon-Reed: We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates review - on white supremacy . In: The Guardian . November 18, 2017, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 6, 2019]).
  20. ↑ Review: 'We Were Eight Years In Power' By Ta-Nehisi Coates. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Ta-Nehisi Coates: 'The Filter ... Is Powerful': Obama on Race, Media, and What It Took to Win. December 20, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2019 (American English).
  22. ↑ Ta-Nehisi Coates: 'Better Is Good': Obama on Reparations, Civil Rights, and the Art of the Possible. December 21, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2019 (American English).
  23. ↑ Ta-Nehisi Coates: 'It's What We Do More Than What We Say': Obama on Race, Identity, and the Way Forward. December 22, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2019 (American English).
  24. ↑ Ta-Nehisi Coates: 'Surprised Like Everybody Else': Obama on the Election of Donald Trump. December 23, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2019 (American English).
  25. ↑ The Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2017. Accessed March 6, 2019 .
  26. ^ We were eight years in power - Books - Hanser Literaturverlage. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  27. ↑ a b c d Cornel West: Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle | Cornel West . In: The Guardian . December 17, 2017, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 6, 2019]).
  28. ↑ Richard Spencer: He's not wrong.https: //twitter.com/cornelwest/status/942511184103612416… In: @RichardBSpencer. December 19, 2017, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  29. ↑ raceAhead: Ta-Nehisi Coates Quits Twitter. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  30. ↑ Osita Nwanevu: Ta-Nehisi Coates is Leaving The Atlantic. July 20, 2018, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  31. ↑ Ta-Nehisi Coates Leaves 'The Atlantic'. July 20, 2018, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Ta-Nehisi Coates: The First White President . In: The Atlantic . October 2017, ISSN  1072-7825 ( theatlantic.com [accessed March 6, 2019]).
  33. ^ Newly Elected Fellows. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  34. ↑ Ta-Nehisi Coates. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Coates, Ta-Nehisi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore