Ta-Nehisi Coates Quote
The Negro Family is a flawed work in part because it is a fundamentally sexist document that promotes the importance not just of family but of patriarchy, arguing that black men should be empowered at the expense of black women. Men must have jobs, Moynihan wrote to President Johnson in 1965. We must not rest until every able-bodied Negro male is working. Even if we have to displace some females. Moynihan was evidently unconcerned that he might be arguing for propping up an order in which women were bound to men by a paycheck , in which family still meant the right of a husband to rape his wife and intramarital violence was still treated as a purely domestic and nonlegal matter.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Negro Family is a flawed work in part because it is a fundamentally sexist document that promotes the importance not just of family but of patriarchy, arguing that black men should be empowered at the expense of black women. Men must have jobs, Moynihan wrote to President Johnson in 1965. We must not rest until every able-bodied Negro male is working. Even if we have to displace some females. Moynihan was evidently unconcerned that he might be arguing for propping up an order in which women were bound to men by a paycheck , in which family still meant the right of a husband to rape his wife and intramarital violence was still treated as a purely domestic and nonlegal matter.
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About Ta-Nehisi Coates
Coates has worked for The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, and Time. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, O, and other publications.
He has published three non-fiction books: The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has also written a Black Panther series and a Captain America series for Marvel Comics. His first novel, The Water Dancer, was published in 2019.
In 2015 he received a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation.