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The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Start date: July 1, 2025

Finish date: September 30, 2025

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Shelves: politics, non-fiction, zzck, essays, race, reviewed, xauwc, social-commentary, writing, journalism

The Message is social commentary on writing, race, and politics. It explores how stories shape viewpoints. The book is structured around three geographic journeys. Coates recounts his first trip to Africa, specifically Dakar, Senegal, where he discusses the narratives of African heritage that shaped his upbringing, and his observations of how the ideal is not always replicated by reality. He takes readers to South Carolina, where he reports on his own book's banning and the still-present remnant ...more

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