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Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required studying,” a daring and private literary exploration of America’s racial historical past by “the only greatest author as regards to race in america” (The New York Observer)
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In a profound work that pivots from the most important questions on American historical past and beliefs to probably the most intimate considerations of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a strong new framework for understanding our nation’s historical past and present disaster. Americans have constructed an empire on the thought of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all however falls most closely on the our bodies of black men and women—our bodies exploited via slavery and segregation, and, at this time, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it wish to inhabit a black physique and discover a option to stay inside it? And how can all of us truthfully reckon with this fraught historical past and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s try and reply these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares together with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the reality about his place on the earth via a collection of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood residence to the dwelling rooms of moms whose youngsters’s lives have been taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from private narrative, reimagined historical past, and recent, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the previous, bracingly confronts our current, and presents a transcendent imaginative and prescient for a approach ahead.
Praise for Between the World and Me
“Powerful . . . a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America immediately.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“Eloquent . . . within the custom of James Baldwin with echoes of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man . . . an autobiography of the black physique in America.”—The Boston Globe
“Brilliant . . . [Coates] is firing on all cylinders.”—The Washington Post
“Urgent, lyrical, and devastating . . . a brand new basic of our time.”—Vogue
“A essential ebook throughout this second of generational awakening.”—The New Yorker
“Titanic and well timed . . . important studying.”—Entertainment WeeklyBetween the World and Me
