Between the World and Me
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.92 (863 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812993543 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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.Praise for Between the World and Me“Powerful a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “Eloquent in the tradition of James Baldwin with echoes of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man an autobiography of the black body in America.”—The Boston Globe “Brilliant Coates is firing on all cylinders.”—The Washington Post “Urgent, lyrical, and devastating a new classic of our time.”—Vogue “A crucial book during this moment of generational awakening.”—The New Yorker
Clifton said An Offering of Understanding. Like many of the one- and two- star reviewers of this book, I bristled at certain passages in Between the World and Me. I felt attacked and blamed at times, because I, in Ta-Nehisi Coates' words, "believe that I am white." So I understand the scorn directed at this book by many who dismiss it as divisive and simplistic in its assessment of the black experience in America.Bu. "Most challenging book I've ever read" according to Paul R.. I'm white, male, and have very little understanding or appreciation for black culture. My parents and siblings all watched Roots when I was about 8 years old. I encountered some black sailors when I was in the U.S. Navy - in fact, I had a roommate for six months or so that was a black male, but we maybe spoke a hundred words during that time. This book came recommended by a. Raw. C. Langwell This was one of the most eye opening, touching, raw books I've read in a long time. Coates takes the world he lives in and opens it up, dissecting it on the table for all of us to see and experience. This book is a letter to his son as a way of reaching out to him after yet another unarmed black man is killed while in custody. In doing so, he offers an intimate, bare bones
Coates describes his observations and the evolution of his thinking on race, from Malcolm X to his conclusion that race itself is a fabrication, elemental to the concept of American (white) exceptionalism. This is a powerful and exceptional book.--Jon Foro. Ferguson, Trayvon Martin, and South Carolina are not bumps on the road of progress and harmony, but the results of a systemized, ubiquitous threat to “black bodies” in the form of slavery, police brutality, and mass incarceration. There are no wasted words. An