Autobiography, American history, race relations[1]
Published
July 2015
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Media type
Print
Pages
176[2]
ISBN
978-0-8129-9354-7 [1]
Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It was written by Coates as a letter to his then-teenage son about his perception of what the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States are. Coates recapitulates American history and explains to his son "racist violence that has been woven into American culture." Coates draws from an abridged, autobiographical account of his youth in Baltimore, detailing his beliefs about what are the ways in which, to him, institutions like schools, the local police, and even "the streets" discipline, endanger, and threaten to "disembody" black men and women.
The work takes structural and thematic inspiration from James Baldwin's 1963 epistolary book The Fire Next Time. Unlike Baldwin, however, Coates views white supremacy as "an indestructible force, one that Black Americans will never evade or erase, but will always struggle against."
The novelist Toni Morrison praised the book, in that Coates "filled an intellectual gap in succession to James Baldwin."[3] Editors of The New York Times and The New Yorker described the book as "exceptional."[4][5] The book won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction[6][7] and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.[8]
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^Dyson, Michael Eric (July 23, 2015). "Can Ta-Nehisi Coates Measure up to the Legacy of James Baldwin?". The Atlantic. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
^Kakutani, Michiko (July 9, 2015). "Review: In 'Between the World and Me,' Ta-Nehisi Coates Delivers a Searing Dispatch to His Son". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
^Bennett, Brit (July 15, 2015). "Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
^Dwyer, Colin (October 14, 2015). "Finalists Unveiled For This Year's National Book Awards". NPR. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
^Alter, Alexandra (November 19, 2015). "Ta-Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award". The New York Times. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
^"Finalist: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)". Pulitzer Prize. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
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