We Were Eight Years in Power. An American Tragedy

If you want to understand race in America, you must read this book. Exploring the eight years of the Obama presidency but also charting the US's history of slavery and racism right up to the election of Donald Trump - the 'first white President' - Ta-Nehisi Coates uncovers the white supremacism lying just beneath the surface of a country that for too long has refused to accept that it is and always has been at war with itself.