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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Aug 28, 2015 K rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: anti-racism, african-american-reads

This book is an American masterpiece. Two hundred years from now, people will still be reading this book. Historians will be reading this book trying to understand how Americans of our generation were comfortable with the violence against minorities perpetuated by the State and by the lack of resources, security, and community within their neighborhoods.

Ta-Nehisi Coates has the ability to not only influence and persuade, his writing has the ability to get people to act. Thanks to him opening my ...more

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Mar 10, 2019 Ms. Kat rated it it was amazing

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes this book for his son, but it’s really a book for all of America. It’s an insistent reminder of what has been left out of history books, of the injustice of police brutality, of the injury of slavery and the current violence against the black, male body. Though the first part of the book focuses on history and beautifully constructed writing that borders on academic, the second part reveals Coetes’s writing at its best. Through personal and collective stories, Coetes's po ...more

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Jun 18, 2016 Nadine rated it it was amazing

This is just one of those breath- taking books where you want to savior each turn of phrase but are impelled to move forward by the momentum of what he's saying. I listened to the audio version read by Ta-Nehisi Coates himself and that made it all the more real. A study on identity and thought and intellectual deepening ...more

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Jul 18, 2015 Kristi Hovington rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

just read this. everyone.

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Jul 10, 2020 Tara Ethridge rated it really liked it

Written as a letter to his son, this is both intimate and heartbreaking, honest and historic, about living life as a black man. Weaving in history and his own life experiences, I appreciated this window into life at Howard University and Ta-Nehisi's journey. ...more

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