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Mar 04, 2024LPL_TheresaB rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book by Ta-Nehisi Coates expresses a warning, a mourning expression, and an ode to hope that we can move towards greater honesty to address the generations-long discrimination of Black people. He argues that our current societal…
Feb 16, 2024FloraWest rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I don't often run across a book I think everyone should read but this is definitely one of them. All white people anyway, though I suspect (but certainly don't know for sure) that many people of color would find it affirming. It's personal…
Feb 15, 2024iona712 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Absolutely beautiful. A needed balm after phases of theory and discourse analysis. Hopeful and grounding and real af.
Dec 26, 2023
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Sep 22, 2023zenmark29 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Poetically powerful. Thought provoking. Worth reading.
Jul 16, 2023mlhadley1 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It is written to give one to think about how and understand more how the black race is still figuring out how to survive in thisUSA American world. How the centuries of being property verses person. Both had value but for entirely…
May 03, 2023MI_cpl rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A most timely, thoughtful and aesthetically pleasing read for the ages-a literary classic without question. Affirmed by it numerous awards. Some may think that the style is a bit too much, or the intimacy too personal. Coates, however, is…
Apr 16, 2023CareyMacaulay rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"That wisdom is not unique to our people, but I think it has special meaning to those of us born out of mass rape, whose ancestors were carried off and divided up into policies and stocks. I have raised you to respect every human being as…
Mar 17, 2023DavidSpencer99 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I have to admit I’m not a fan. While interesting for its insights into TNC’s world and the PTSD that black boys inherit, I thought this book was short on remedy or even coping strategy. Reviewers—black ones and white—from NY Times and The…
Nov 28, 2022HPL_Teen_Volunteer3 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"Between the World and Me" is a non-fiction book, serving as Ta-Nehisi Coates' letter to his fifteen-year-old son, describing the hardships of black men in America. Within Coates' letter, he critiques America's institutional racism,…
Jun 08, 2022HPL_Teen_Volunteer1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates is a powerful, poignant, novel of prose. The narrative is written as the author’s letter to his son, a letter that describes what it means to be Black, and how the ’American Dream’ is built on…
May 31, 2022rosemarienorth rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Challenging, funny, poignant, original. So many memorable turns of phrase. Deep thinking about race & our world. Highly recommended.
Feb 14, 2022EljayJohnson rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Profound, timely, and moving. Plain-as-day truths written by a poet.
Dec 26, 2021
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Dec 11, 2021Keeper_of_the_Book_Hoard rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Beautifully written and poignant, writing in the tradition of James Baldwin, this book should be read and reread by anyone living in America. Coates is not exactly hopeful or optimistic but his insights cut deeply and invite us to continue…
Oct 27, 2021rjramirez rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
“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.” Between the World and Me is written as a letter/essay from Coates to his fifteen-year-old son, trying to come to terms…
Sep 29, 2021Samwoww7 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is a truly beautiful story in every way. It was a joy and a gut punch to read. This should be a must-read for American Literature.
Sep 26, 2021
In his trademark style -- a mix of lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, essayistic argument, and reportage -- Coates provides readers a thrillingly illuminating new framework for understanding race: its history, our contemporary…
Aug 23, 2021LCPL_Vivian rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Between the World and Me is a letter written to Samori, the author's son, as well as anyone who is willing to read it. There is discussion about blacks losing their bodies to whites, the shooting of Prince "Rocky" Jones back in 2000, and…
May 12, 2021Les_419 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Beautifully lyrical, insightful, wholehearted. Listen to the audio book for the the most poetic experience.
Apr 19, 2021hemelj rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I am spellbound and heartbroken at the same time. Listening to his voice as he tells the story of his youth and so many others' childhoods and experiences as Black, I can start to understand the weight I do not have to carry and can never…
Apr 04, 2021Patricia990 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Changed the way I see so many things. So grateful to have heard Ta-Nehisi Coates' beautiful voice.
Jan 31, 2021
✔︎ The dominant narrative about white people is gradually changing, as working-class whites are seen as a problem demographic, beset by declining life expectancy, dead-end jobs, rural backwardness, drug addiction, family breakdown and…
Dec 14, 2020davidbspencer rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I have to admit I’m not a fan. While Between the World and Me was interesting for its insights into TNC’s world and the PTSD that black boys inherit, I thought it was short on remedy or even coping strategy. Reviewers—black ones and…
Dec 12, 2020joe_strnad rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a must read. Coates tackles the issues of race in the US. Tracing the issues of today back through Civil Rights, Jim Crow, Reconstruction, the Civil War, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. However, this book is deeply personal as…