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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Start date: October 1, 2022

Finish date: October 31, 2022

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Why we're reading this: Diversity topic we cover in October is race/ethnicity

Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Oct 06, 2018 Donna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: african-american, death, n-y-times-best-seller, adult-non-fiction, biography, family-life, race-relations

This was excellent!! I highly recommend it. Written as a letter to his teenage son and what knowledge and insight was put in these pages. Deep, inspiring and moving. This book made me re-think a lot of my history.

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Jul 28, 2017 Heather rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio, authors-of-color

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. When I put this book on my list t read, I didn't really know what it was about. I knew it had to do with race and the experience of being Black or Brown in this country. But, it is amazing to me to reflect on the economy of Coates' writing and how much he conveyed in so few pages.

I was fortunate enough to hear him speak this spring and it was moving and powerful. Just as this book is. I now feel compelled to read his other work.

One of the passages that really struck me (it's really hard to pic ...more

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Aug 18, 2018 Rania Nasir rated it it was amazing

Wow. I feel privileged to have read this book. Ta-Nehisi made me think deeply about race and the violence imposed upon the bodies of black Americans. It was refreshing to see a narrative that is so openly and unapologetically angry about the injustices inflicted. I will probably go back and go over this book again at a later point because it is extremely well-written and eloquent in its arguments that a second read might help absorb more of this masterpiece.

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Mar 06, 2019 Krissy rated it it was amazing

I went into this not knowing what the content would be. I picked it out as a library read and read it, description unread. It fits with my 2019 theme of racial reads. It is also by far the best book I've read that breaks down what is at the heart of racial issues. It gives me perspective that I wouldn't have otherwise had.

I'm suggesting everyone read this. Library read. I'm putting it on my list to have for my shelves. I'm also going to find other Coates' books and devour them. His perspective ...more

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Aug 10, 2017 V.E. Ulett rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

There are hard home truths in this book / essay that I wish all Americans would read, and anyone outside our nation that wants to understand our particular pathology.

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