It's really powerful and emotional.' - John Legend Wall Street Journal 'Extraordinary.Ta-Nehisi Coates.writes an impassioned letter to his teenage son-a letter both loving and full of a parent's dread-counselling him on the history of American violence against the black body, the young African-American's extreme vulnerability to wrongful arrest, police violence, and disproportionate incarceration. And I was at that time writing really critically of Obama. This is required reading.' - Toni Morrison 'I just finished an advance copy of Between the World and Me, a look at the racial history of our country by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Author: I was reading The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. And the process of naming the people has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 313,638 ratings, 4.40 average rating, 28,474 reviews Between the World and Me Quotes Showing 1-30 of 968 But race is the child of racism, not the father. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates' journey, is visceral, eloquent and beautifully redemptive. Coates offers this eloquent memoir as a letter to his teenage son, bearing witness to his own experiences and conveying passionate hopes for his son's life.this moving, potent testament might have been titled Black Lives Matter.' Kirkus Reviews (starred) 'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. 'The powerful story of a father's past and a son's future.
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