Between the World and Me

A bold and personal literary exploration of America s racial history by the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States ("The New York Observer")
" This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it. "
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A bold and personal literary exploration of America s racial history by the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States ("The New York Observer")
" This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it. "
In the one hundred fifty years since the end of the Civil War and the ratificiation of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: It is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country s foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, locked up, and killed in our streets. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all regardless of race honestly reckon with our country s fraught racial history and free ourselves from its burden?
"Between the World and Me "is Ta-Nehisi Coates s attempt to answer those questions, presented in the form of a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son and readers the story of his own awakening to the truth about history and race through a series of revelatory experiences: immersion in nationalist mythology as a child; engagement with history, poetry, and love at Howard University; travels to Civil War battlefields and the South Side of Chicago; a journey to France that reorients his sense of the world; and pilgrimages to the homes of mothers whose children s lives have been taken as American plunder. Taken together, these stories map a winding path toward a kind of liberation a journey from fear and confusion to a full and honest understanding of the world as it is.
Masterfully woven from lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, "Between the World and Me "offers a powerful new framework for understanding America s history and current crisis, and a transcendent vision for a way forward."