Between the World and Me (2015)
Between the World and Me is a 2015 race discrimination book written by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Written as a letter from a father to his teenage son, Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with what it means to live in a Black body in America. Coates moves from his own childhood on the streets of Baltimore through the history of slavery, segregation, and police violence, insisting on the physical stakes of racism, the vulnerability of the body itself. He takes structural cues from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time but reaches a bleaker conclusion about the permanence of white supremacy. Spare, personal, and unsparing, the 2015 book won the National Book Award and became a defining text on American race.
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What is Between the World and Me about?
Written as a letter from a father to his teenage son, Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with what it means to live in a Black body in America. Coates moves from his own childhood on the streets of Baltimore through the history of slavery, segregation, and police violence, insisting on the physical stakes of racism, the vulnerability of the body itself. He takes structural cues from James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time but reaches a bleaker conclusion about the permanence of white supremacy. Spare, personal, and unsparing, the 2015 book won the National Book Award and became a defining text on American race.
When was Between the World and Me published?
Between the World and Me was published in 2015.
Who made Between the World and Me?
Between the World and Me was written by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/220290/between-the-world-and-me-by-ta-nehisi-coates/
A few thoughts on Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates's argument has powerful companions on screen and in sound. Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th traces mass incarceration back to slavery with the same historical rigor. I Am Not Your Negro brings James Baldwin, Coates's clear forebear, directly to film. And Kendrick Lamar's album To Pimp a Butterfly wrestles with the same inheritance of Black American life in music.