There are echoes here of Carol Anderson’s excellent White Rage, but McMillan Cottom’s “dance” metaphor feels like an especially useful framing. The Obama-Trump dialectic is not progress-backlash but do-si-do one dance, the same steps, mirroring each other, and each existing only in tandem. Between these moments, she makes a very important connection: In an essay titled, “Know Your Whites,” Tressie McMillan Cottom writes about her initial skepticism that Obama could win (tempered when she attended a fundraising house party hosted by enthusasitic white people), and-later-her confidence that Trump would, of course, prevail. Reading notes Change the world without changing Tressie McMillan Cottom pulls no punches in this exquisite, clear-eyed, and necessary collection of essays. Author Tressie McMillan Cottom Publisher The New Press Copyright 2019 Buy this book Bookshop
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