Ta-Nehisi Coates Idea Of Civilization

Throughout the history, many civilisations have been settling the Earth with an ideal, an objective that can be named as the perfect civilisation. Building a strong civilisation was a way to protect themselves to the others, developing a high sense of a community was another path that human beings have taken since the beginning of their history. Obviously, choosing between a community and an individual subject has several effects that leave some marks on the human being in these times. Through these marks, we can assert likewise as Judith Butler says “as bodies, we are exposed”, a clear indication that we become part of something bigger than us, something that exceeds us. Willingly or not, we have to bear a responsibility of becoming part of …show more content…
The author, by means of a letter, describes his son how difficult is living as a member of the black race in the United States of America. During the book, Ta-Nehisi Coates bring out many times how difficult his childhood was and how complicated it was growing in a city like Baltimore. People came into conflict with other people because of the social status and race origin. Those Street conflicts in his city acquired a dye of difficulty for any person of origin African American as he was. He learnt how to overcome any difficulty thanks his childhood. Although generally speaking, America is considered an exemplary and advanced society with respect to human rights, the reality is easy to glimpse when we look at page 8 on Ta-Nehisi’s book, America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation to ever exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. Here a hint of irony of the author pointing out how far away this dream is from the reality. The United States of America are an innate source of problems that have been mutated into what some media call the post-racism era. However, all these sources of conflicts are based in a relatively young society that was conceived under the strong patriarchal power established in the …show more content…
The term race is designed as a successor of a history of hundreds of years of racism during which Afro-Americans were forced to live like beasts. They were separated by ethnic groups when they arrived, they could not communicate with each other due to the hundreds of different languages spoken in Africa at that time, and language became a barrier. It was then when these slaves began a tradition that is later will be analysed in which through song and their religious beliefs, these people found shelter and some relief in a life filled with hardships. There is no wonder that this African-American community in the United States of America has developed a high grade of unity that makes all and each one of them form part of a whole. This makes them prone to be dependent, to protect them reciprocally from a feeling of rejection widespread around the country and so rooted in the United States. As Judith Butler indicates, “as bodies, we are exposed. This means that we are exposed to others, and that our relationship to others is implied by the bodies we are. And this means that we are not corporeally self-sufficient, but that our bodies are put in the world, exposed to others, and that all our claims for autonomy, equal treatment, recognition, food, and shelter are ways of articulating this

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