“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.
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...
评分让我把这本书从头到尾读完的契机是电影《伸冤人2》。 续集不好拍,《伸冤人2》在国外媒体中口碑一般,豆瓣评分目前只有6.9分。但本片并非一无所长,前特工麦考尔在第一部电影中留下不少谜团,而编剧和导演在第二部中花了心思让这个角色变得更加立体丰满。一般而言,系列作品/电...
评分Between the world and me This is a book about black race in America. It has been included in so many "best books of the year" lists, and NYT alone had four reviews on it, let alone others. I am always half interested in the race relations, and African-Amer...
评分 评分如果只依赖视觉,我们的世界山高云阔。在撞到透明的墙之前,所有人都以为自己是命运的主人。给苦难寻找理由是那么简单:被骗的是因为你贪,被强暴的是因为你骚,被盗的是因为不够警觉,被杀的是因为你在错误的时间出现在错误的地点。我们热衷于为苦难寻找逻辑,借此避开所有潜...
unshackled from the body
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unshackled from the body
评分开头立意很不错,怎么后来越来越啰嗦了呢
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