Between the World and Me
A Nonfiction, Social Movements, Race book. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not...
In a series of essays, written as a letter to his son, Coates confronts the notion of race in America and how it has shaped American history, many times at the cost of black bodies and lives. Thoughtfully exploring personal and historical events, from his time at Howard University to the Civil War, the author poignantly asks and attempts to answer difficult questions that plague modern society. In this short memoir, the "Atlantic" writer explains that the tragic examples of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and those killed in South Carolina are the results of a systematically constructed and maintained assault to black people--a structure that includes slavery, mass incarceration, and police brutality as part of its foundation. From his passionate and deliberate breakdown of the concept of race itself to the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement, Coates powerfully sums up the terrible history of the subjugation...
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- Pages: 4 pages
- ISBN: 9780147520517 / 147520517
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But race is the child of racism, not the father. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming the people has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indeliblethis is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the... I was learning the craft of poetry, which really was an intensive version of what my mother had taught me all those years agothe craft of writing as the art of thinking. Poetry aims for an economy of truthloose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that these loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
If you're waiting for the millionth person to tell you to read this book, allow me to be Person 1,000,000. The audiobook is narrated by the author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and it made the experience deeper for me. Thank you, Mr. Coates, for letting me listen in on your letter to your son. My reality is very different from your son's reality, but I do try to understand the world I live in. By sharing your lyrical insights, you helped me see, you moved me, you angered me, you made me feel at times big and at times small, you made me feel exasperated,... Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates- The Author "The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous", Frederick Douglas- Writer/American Abolitionist "One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymens claims of American exceptionalism...
