For me, Coates’ Between the World and Me rendered me to an unrelentingly uneasy place; a place that asked me as the reader to constantly bear witness to the uncovering of sides of our democracy that are uncomfortable and ugly.
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Whether recognized by the masses or not, higher education civic engagement is now operating in the Post-Ferguson Era. It means that we are staring at an unfiltered and uncomfortable truth; that racial oppression and inequity are dominant threads of change-initiative conversations in our country’s urban core neighborhood communities.