Please use our second two readings – Kwame Anthony Appiah’s “Crazy Rich Identities” and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “The Case for Reparations” – to answer the following question. Support your answer with your own close analysis of quotes and ideas from both texts. In this paper, please focus on engaging in a close reading of the text to identify assumptions and implications, and on placing the texts in conversation with each other.
Kwame Anthony Appiah says that “the way Singapore handles national identity and ethnic difference makes for a fascinating comparison with the United States.” Take at least one specific concept from Appiah’s article and apply it to the situation Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses in his article. How might the way Appiah thinks about the nature of identity and the relationship between the state and ethnic identity or differences affect our understanding of the way America has “handle[d] national identity and ethnic difference” as discussed by Ta-Nehisi Coates?
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