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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I do not agree with him on every thing but I appreciate his honesty and willingness to share his experiences. We truly can never know what others go through in life and to me it is important to listen to understand.
Penned to his teenaged son, Ta-Nehisi writes what it means to have a black body that you’re never in control of. He gives his son personal accounts of what it was like for him back in his day and how those days look a lot like these days and how his aspirations are greater for his son, but his son has to find his own method of gaining and keeping control of his own black body. Thought provoking and succinct while giving enough to chew on.
It is a true talent to be able to write a piece of prose that is so assertively stark and bleak yet raw and honest and not come across as anything but real. So honestly real. The author doesn't go for any shock factor nor other cheap twists to try and persuade the reader if his point of view but just pure unemotionally heated story telling. I was hoping the book would end up with a bit of guiding light to the future, but that would not be true to the realism of this open letter of father to his race culture awakening son. I can see (and very much agree) why this book should be a vital read to all BLM and Black History Month reading lists.
Great book for anyone wanting to learn about the experience of parenting black children and raising them in a racialised society. 10/10 would recommend!
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