Between the World and Me

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.

出版者:Spiegel & Grau

作者:Ta-Nehisi Coates

页数:176

出版时间:2015-7-14

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780812993547

图书标签:种族美国英文原版英文原著社会学AmericaRacenon-fiction

“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.

读后感

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...  

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...  

这本书是一个黑人父亲写给儿子的三封信。在他年轻的时候，认为黑人就相当于赤身裸体面对世界的狂风暴雨，在枪、拳头、刀、毒品、强奸和疾病面前毫无遮掩。这样的赤裸裸恰恰是政策所有意追求的结果，法律并没有保护他们。 黑人种族在社会中的弱小，比我们想象的还要脆弱，读起这...  

用户评价

“they made us into a race, we made ourselves into a people”

美国黑人文学和音乐里传达的灵魂深度来自世世代代的苦难。有Toni Morrison的范儿，句子像诗，也像rap歌词。其实比James Baldwin的The Fire Next Time写得好。

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。

非常有感染力和辩说力的一本书。

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