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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?
Brent Forkner Coates addresses specifically and exactly "the way forward" in numerous passages of this book. And what I get from my first reading (listening really)…moreCoates addresses specifically and exactly "the way forward" in numerous passages of this book. And what I get from my first reading (listening really) is that any way forward requires that we awaken from the dream. This awakening is individual, but I think the way forward involves finding others who wish to awaken and creating a life and a world in which we can be awake together. I am one of those "people who have to believe they are white." I can see that far. And I see in another writer, Ann Pancake's book "Strange As This Weather Has Been" a story of people who believe they are white and yet are awakening to the reality that they are not part of the dream. So I believe it is possible to awaken, and that is the way forward. Wake up!(less)
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by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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