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.
“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.
發表於2025-03-10
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對美國的種族主義瞭解不多,大部分都還是停留在中學時代所學的美國曆史,南北戰爭,廢除奴隸製……現實生活裏對種族主義的接觸也不多,更談不上有多深入的感受和理解,總覺得一提起黑人,就是盜竊、搶劫、強奸、犯罪,就是貧窮、睏頓、街頭小混混……黑人二字,好像自古以來就...
評分在我接觸瞭優質的中國傢庭之後我發現,這些父親與母親在對待自己孩子時更溫柔,更民主,更加愛,也許你要說誰傢的父母不愛自己的孩子呢?這沒有可比性。不,我要告訴你的是對於成長期的孩子來說溫柔的愛與粗暴的愛,顯然溫柔的愛如鼕日暖陽,如暮春微風是滋養兒童成長的一片舒...
評分 評分我寫我思 (一) 最初打開這本書,是基於“這是一本寫給兒子的三封信”。作為一名新手麻麻,我想知道父母對於孩子應該有什麼的期待,未曾想這是一本對於一個族群的無力,對於現實殘酷世界濃重的悲傷。 孩子,我是如此的愛你,可恰恰是因為我愛你,我不得不告訴你真實的世界是...
評分作為一個國際事務從業者,我曾經滿世界跑過,現在在美國暫時安定下來工作。在試圖與世界對話的過程中,基本從未因為自己的文化我的種族受到任何歧視或者偏見。但是不可避免的,我也感受過世界之於我的惡意。 第一次齣國,每個人都會敏感外國人對自己的態度基於種族或者文化偏...
圖書標籤: 種族 美國 英文原版 英文原著 社會學 America Race non-fiction
struggle against the white dreamer-black panther revival
評分聽著Lemonade讀再閤適不過。lyrical and powerfully written. If you think it's just ranting, you just proved his point.
評分Excessive rhetoric, while lacking logic and objectivity - too much anger, maybe hatred, made my reading less comfortable. Credit for the author's honesty, which made the book a pitiful lesson on reality.
評分基本進瞭美國各大年度最佳書榜。從The case for reparations就很愛他的寫作,充滿瞭力量。Institutional racism和對於black bodies的侵犯社會學傢寫瞭很多,可鮮有那麼觸動人心的語言(學術規範造成的壁壘固然是原因之一)。Coates通過他極強的寫作和語言能力,從自身經曆齣發,又不囿於自身,很有感染力。
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