
I have been really eager to read Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns for a while now. A few weeks ago, when Ta-Nehisi Coates was locked in a very public and very entertaining debate with Jonathan Chait, Coates celebrated Wilkerson's text as, "dismantling the liberal theory of cultural degradation."
The Coates v. Chait debate was about Chait's defense of President Obama's arguments regarding Black families and Black communities, arguments that...