#Pankaj_Mishra reviews ‘We Were Eight Years in Power’ by #Ta-Nehisi_Coates · LRB 22 February 2018
▻https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n04/pankaj-mishra/why-do-white-people-like-what-i-write
For a self-aware and independent-minded writer like Coates, the danger is not so much seduction by power as a distortion of perspective caused by proximity to it.
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As long as Coates is indifferent to the links between race and international political economy, he is more likely to induce relief than guilt among his white liberal fans.