Between the World and Me has been praised and criticized by many many reviewers, so I will limit myself to a couple of textual elements that struck me as odd. Coates has some unusual rhetorical devices that take a little getting used to. He constantly refers to "black bodies" in such a way that I ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates beautifully describes what it is like to be black in America. To have the world treat and see you as different because of the color of your skin. This is a collection of essays that Coates wrote to his son about his experiences growing up black in America and his thoughts of a lo...
The short collection of essays from the author to his 15 year old son is both profoundly personal and universal. Coates even comments on that universality early in the book when he mentioned that the woman and girls in his childhood neighborhood probably had more fears (such as making it to adulthoo...
Wow, is this guy pissed off. But he has a right to be. Those of us who grew up in and still live in Dick and Jane land have no idea what it's like for the folks we have intentionally barred from our Dream World. Mr. Coates tries to tell us. From as early as he can remember, he was afraid for his bod...
The TruthThis book told the truth about black lives in this country. Not all black people grew up in ghettos, some of us grew up in the suburbs with the white picket fence. But this book shows we all experience the something and that is racism. Is book also shed light on what African Americans deal...
This book is difficult, took me several months to finish it because I got half way through, had to stop, and then restarted it recently and read it all the way to the end. It's depressing. Of course it is. But it's a good depressing. It is a painful, reaffirming depressing that refuses to pull punch...
Coates writes beautifully and plainly to explain his experience and wisdom to his son. Though his son is the intended reader, his words are something everyone should read. There's no simple way to explain what he talks about because he covers so many topics, though it can be said that they all relat...
Compact, powerful, heartfelt and deeply personal examination of the death of a college friend at the hands of the police. It's so easy to declare oneself "not a racist" and yet be blind to the institutionalized racism against African Americans. Coates removes those blinders for the reader. He does n...
First, a backdrop, or rather one of the backdrops to this book, an abstract, literary one - not the context of daily institutionalised violence, minor hostilities, the need to be - in Coates' words - "twice as good".I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. Toni ...
Part 1: I am uncomfortable as I listen to this narrative. I am uncomfortable because this challenges what I have learned in school and in life. I am uncomfortable because I am forcing myself to think about issues that I normally push to the back of my mind, yes as a black woman I am different bu...
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