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.
这本书以给儿子的信件形式,他从个人经历角度解读了种族的问题。成长于巴尔的摩,他独特的解读角度是: 谁拥有我们的身体。某些种族的人常常面临着身体被夺走的危险。而这种时刻存在的恐惧 影响了他分析种族的性格和遭遇。书中偏后有一小段描写了他独自在巴黎的公园长椅上 感受...
评分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...
评分如果只依赖视觉,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...
评分让我把这本书从头到尾读完的契机是电影《伸冤人2》。 续集不好拍,《伸冤人2》在国外媒体中口碑一般,豆瓣评分目前只有6.9分。但本片并非一无所长,前特工麦考尔在第一部电影中留下不少谜团,而编剧和导演在第二部中花了心思让这个角色变得更加立体丰满。一般而言,系列作品/电...
评分Beautifully written. I makes me aspire to talk in this beautiful way (and a bit frustrated, event reticent when I failed to.) The frustration also comes from the harsh reality Coates depicted. I felt dismal after reading the book, by the oblivion of human ...
像诗歌一样的文字。A tale about the dreamers and their nation told through the perspective of the oppressed. Lots of deep thoughts and passion.
评分哭了
评分像诗歌一样的文字。A tale about the dreamers and their nation told through the perspective of the oppressed. Lots of deep thoughts and passion.
评分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。
评分no shit!
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