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I'm looking for great non-fiction for 16-18 year old readers in advanced classes--especially titles that have their literary fingers on the public pulse, so to speak. Should I consider this text for my students?
Karen Cavalli I second Laura Starks. Sixteen-18 year old years will appreciate the opening to the work in which the narrator is pulling no punches about the America…moreI second Laura Starks. Sixteen-18 year old years will appreciate the opening to the work in which the narrator is pulling no punches about the America he lives in. And he should not be: "always tell the truth," his tells his son, and Coates is a good role model. He tells the truth that a person of colors lives everyday in a way that makes it visceral; reading this will change the reader. Then the writing style changes a bit to a more accessible young man with opportunities, a young father, a young writer, and a young man in Paris, but all in the context, the reality of being black in America: you are under, as Coates says. I thought I knew so much when I started this book; then I realized I knew so little and had to reeducated and be horrified when I was done. How do you live with this? Keep reading until the end of Coates' book; he tells you how (and then start his novel Water Dancer...)(less)
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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