Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A letter America doesn't want to read
For you if
you need someone to name what you've been feeling but couldn't say
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Written as a letter to his teenage son, Coates reckons with the physical reality of being Black in America — not as metaphor, not as sociology, but as a condition of the body. Urgent, lyrical, and unsparing. This is a book for the moment when knowing the history isn't enough, and you need someone to help you hold the feeling of it.
Where This Book Lives
Same pattern, different era
Different time, different place. The same thing keeps happening.
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