“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 a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former staff writer at The Village Voice and Time and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and numerous other publications. He lives in New York City.
这本书以给儿子的信件形式,他从个人经历角度解读了种族的问题。成长于巴尔的摩,他独特的解读角度是: 谁拥有我们的身体。某些种族的人常常面临着身体被夺走的危险。而这种时刻存在的恐惧 影响了他分析种族的性格和遭遇。书中偏后有一小段描写了他独自在巴黎的公园长椅上 感受...
评分对美国的种族主义了解不多,大部分都还是停留在中学时代所学的美国历史,南北战争,废除奴隶制……现实生活里对种族主义的接触也不多,更谈不上有多深入的感受和理解,总觉得一提起黑人,就是盗窃、抢劫、强奸、犯罪,就是贫穷、困顿、街头小混混……黑人二字,好像自古以来就...
评分世界,是白人的世界,是崇尚民主与仁慈上帝的世界,这个世界的名字叫“美国”。 这个世界的另一面充满着各种异端的行为,暴力、毒品、强奸……受害者是我,是我们,是想要在美国得以“自由生活”的黑人。 可以说,这本书的内容就是三封信,是塔那西斯·科茨写给儿子的三封信。...
评分 评分我英文不好,只能读译著。所以,我不知道是翻译的原因还是我的阅读水平有限,亦或是作者本身的写作特点导致,这本由作者写给自己孩子的三封信组成的书读起来很拗口,内容也略显混乱。本以为这是一部针砭美国时弊,了解美国社会种族主义成因的著作,但我读后感觉更加迷茫。我没...
就是一篇大作文,乏善可陈。
评分基本进了美国各大年度最佳书榜。从The case for reparations就很爱他的写作,充满了力量。Institutional racism和对于black bodies的侵犯社会学家写了很多,可鲜有那么触动人心的语言(学术规范造成的壁垒固然是原因之一)。Coates通过他极强的写作和语言能力,从自身经历出发,又不囿于自身,很有感染力。
评分从头卖惨到底。很难看。
评分像诗歌一样的文字。A tale about the dreamers and their nation told through the perspective of the oppressed. Lots of deep thoughts and passion.
评分unshackled from the body
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