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![]() ![]() Taken together, these stories map a winding path towards a kind of liberation-a journey from fear and confusion, to a full and honest understanding of the world as it is. 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. ![]() What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can America reckon with its fraught racial history?īetween the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer those questions, presented in the form of a letter to his adolescent son. ![]() ![]() In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification 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 the streets. ![]()
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