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2024-05-17
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很多人心中的美國夢就是民主、自由,有著漂亮草坪的完美彆墅,孩子們在自由地玩耍,有樹屋、幼童軍和野餐旅遊,然而美國齣生身為美國公民的塔那西斯•科茨在他那本獲得美國國傢圖書奬、美剋阿瑟“天纔”奬等多項大奬的書籍《在世界與我之間》裏卻說,這個聞起來有薄荷香味的...
評分 評分如果隻依賴視覺,我們的世界山高雲闊。在撞到透明的牆之前,所有人都以為自己是命運的主人。給苦難尋找理由是那麼簡單:被騙的是因為你貪,被強暴的是因為你騷,被盜的是因為不夠警覺,被殺的是因為你在錯誤的時間齣現在錯誤的地點。我們熱衷於為苦難尋找邏輯,藉此避開所有潛...
評分我英文不好,隻能讀譯著。所以,我不知道是翻譯的原因還是我的閱讀水平有限,亦或是作者本身的寫作特點導緻,這本由作者寫給自己孩子的三封信組成的書讀起來很拗口,內容也略顯混亂。本以為這是一部針砭美國時弊,瞭解美國社會種族主義成因的著作,但我讀後感覺更加迷茫。我沒...
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
開頭立意很不錯,怎麼後來越來越囉嗦瞭呢
評分“they made us into a race, we made ourselves into a people”
評分unshackled from the body
評分像詩歌一樣的文字。A tale about the dreamers and their nation told through the perspective of the oppressed. Lots of deep thoughts and passion.
評分從頭賣慘到底。很難看。
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