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Dana DesJardins asked this question about Between the World and Me:
The flyleaf posits that this book "offers a transcendent vision for a way forward." While Coates insists on self-interrogation, education, solidarity, and awareness as survival strategies, I did not find a "transcendent way forward." Some help please?
S. Suresh Coates does say how this nightmare that black people face can end - when the white people wake up from their Dream. A Dream that compels them to need …moreCoates does say how this nightmare that black people face can end - when the white people wake up from their Dream. A Dream that compels them to need the black people beneath them to enjoy their sense of superiority; a Dream that redlines the black people out of their safe suburban life style. Perhaps not transcendent, but a way forward nonetheless. Although, I must admit with some of the other answers here - Coates doesn't sound too optimistic that it is likely to happen anytime in the near future.(less)
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by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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