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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates' letter to his son unflinchingly reveals how the American Dream, for Black people, has often been a violent illusion built on the systemic exploitation of the body.
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“Ta-Nehisi Coates' letter to his son unflinchingly reveals how the American Dream, for Black people, has often been a violent illusion built on the systemic exploitation of the body.”
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Race, American history, identity, systemic injustice
If you've ever felt a disconnect between America's stated ideals and its lived realities for some, this illuminates the profound, systemic cost, and this will help you see what to do next.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, a National Book Award winner and MacArthur Fellow, brings a journalist's rigor and a poet's sensitivity to the historical and contemporary realities of race in America, grounded in his own lived experience.