white. In Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates presents a letter to his son specifically revolving around the embodied state of blackness, placing an emphasis on the stolen bodies of African Americans during slavery. Coates also considers the logic of white supremacy and goes as far as presenting society as a dogma laid down by the ruling order, which, he argues, is what whiteness represents. Whiteness has emerged under various, more serious forms, threatening not only minorities, but also the…
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