When black teenagers are murdered by police in the USA, is that just a problem of individual wrongdoing? No, because racist violence is deeply woven into American identity - it is what the country is built upon. African Americans built its wealth as slaves and die as free citizens on its streets. In his painful, passionate manifesto, Ta-Nehisi Coates condenses American and personal history into a call for his country to finally confront its past. His book became a number one bestseller in the USA and is already a classic that future debates on racism will reference.