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In recovery mode from too much Christmas Eve food, I finished this short book/long letter written as a screed of warning from Dad (Ta-Nehesi Coates) to his son. Much has been written about this book already, so I'll just add that his indictment of America struck a chord that should be struck. It looks at race in ways White America would never think to look at it.
The book is relentlessly physical. Coates repeatedly refers to blacks as "bodies," creating an apt metaphor for how blacks' bodies wer ...more
The book is relentlessly physical. Coates repeatedly refers to blacks as "bodies," creating an apt metaphor for how blacks' bodies wer ...more
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me is profoundly beautiful and poetically brilliant.
Coates articulates what only a select authors have achieved, immutable candor. It’s raw, yet refined in its message and tone.
There are expressions so brutally poignant, that your breath is momentarily arrested, yet, you push on as his words fuel your quest for air.
The “body”, Coates metaphoric embodiment of the racially disenfranchised is a haunting presence. It evokes images of historic injustices and ...more
Coates articulates what only a select authors have achieved, immutable candor. It’s raw, yet refined in its message and tone.
There are expressions so brutally poignant, that your breath is momentarily arrested, yet, you push on as his words fuel your quest for air.
The “body”, Coates metaphoric embodiment of the racially disenfranchised is a haunting presence. It evokes images of historic injustices and ...more
This is a must read for anyone living in America.
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