![]() ![]() ![]() His 2015 follow-up, Between the World and Me, made him an international celebrity. ![]() The anecdote is found at the beginning of Coates's 2009 memoir, The Beautiful Struggle, and it typifies an attitude that hardened throughout the author's youth and young adulthood, prepared him for immersion into the arena of racial politics, and has since made him one of the most prominent intellectual figures of the progressive left. It is found in his account of attending a professional wrestling show at six years old and seeing "white people everywhere," remembering that "they looked dirty,"1people "who wore caps and jeans sliced into shorts herded kids, hot dogs, and popcorn." The descriptor from which the title of this article is taken reveals the moment in which racial strife became the animating feature of Ta-Nehisi Coates's burgeoning intellectual life. ![]()
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