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.
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
In 2015, Coates received a MacArthur Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.
His work has been published in numerous periodicals. He has published four nonfiction books: The Beautiful Struggle (2008), Between the World and Me (2015), We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (2017), and The Message (2024). 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.