Between the World and Me
A New York Times Best Seller, National Book Award Winner, NAACP Image Award Winner, and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Between the World and Me offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
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Wow. I get that racism has not gone away, but I had never understood even a glimmer of what the black experience STILL is. This isn't a powerful eye opening read for anyone. But especially for those of us who think things have gotten better since the 60s. Did I say wow?
So once again, a TV show interview intrigued me enough to read the book featured. A bit late, you say? Yes, I know. Am I the intended audience? Probably not, but I learned some things anyways and isn't that the point?
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Coates’ language depicts with brutal palpability the pattern of violence and murder that the American economic engine generated at its inception, and which it continues to churn out en masse. His thesis is simple: that "race" is more than a naturally occurring abstraction which causes some to have and others to have not; that "the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon th...read more
Not even sure what to say in this review, because there is so much that comes to the surface when thinking about what I just read. It was excellent, powerful, needed.
This novel, written as a letter to his black son, hit a little harder for me, because I myself, being the father of a black son, have some of the same thoughts and fears.
I'll for sure always have this book available, in case anyone ever needs a "starting point" on where to start re...read more
This novel, written as a letter to his black son, hit a little harder for me, because I myself, being the father of a black son, have some of the same thoughts and fears.
I'll for sure always have this book available, in case anyone ever needs a "starting point" on where to start re...read more
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