Between the World and Me

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Subjects: Racial discrimination, Whites, history, Fathers and sons, Whites--United States--Attitudes, Erlebnisbericht, Racism, African-Americans, Biography & autobiography, Students, Social sciences -> history -> american history, Biography, African-americans, Enfance et jeunesse, Personal memoirs, Conditions sociales, African americans, African americans, history, Whites, New york times reviewed, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, African americans, biography, African Americans, Justice raciale, Ethnische beziehungen, Attitudes, White people, Biographies, race relations, Droits, African americans--social conditions, African Americans--Social conditions, Racisme, General, Large type books, New York Times bestseller, Opinion publique, African American, Social sciences -> sociology -> race/class/gender, Whites--united states--attitudes, Étudiants, HISTORY, English & college success -> english -> biography & autobiography, Histoire, Nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2015-08-02, 15.85 history of America, Childhood and youth, Discrimination & race relations, Umschulungswerkstätten für siedler und auswanderer, Blancs, Race Relations, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, race discrimination, Personal Memoirs, Social science, Personnes blanches, New York Times reviewed, Public opinion, Father-child relations, Howard university, SOCIAL SCIENCE, African Americans--Public opinion, Social science / discrimination & race relations, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Relations raciales, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2015-08-02, Race discrimination, 15.85 history of america, History / united states / general, Social conditions, New york times bestseller, HISTORY / United States / General, Civil rights, Father-Child Relations, History, United states, race relations, Discrimination raciale, Noirs américains, Father and child, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, Discrimination & Race Relations, Racial justice, Race relations, African americans, social conditions, Pères et fils, Père et enfant, Howard University, Afroamerikanismus, African americans--public opinion, Journalists, biography, Biography & autobiography / personal memoirs, Ethnische Beziehungen

Description: Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States. Coates recapitulates American history and explains to his son the "racist violence that has been woven into American culture." Coates draws from an abridged, autobiographical account of his youth in Baltimore, detailing the ways in which institutions like the school, the police, and even "the streets" discipline, endanger, and threaten to disembody black men and women. The work takes structural and thematic inspiration from James Baldwin's 1963 epistolary book The Fire Next Time. Unlike Baldwin, Coates sees white supremacy as an indestructible force, one that Black Americans will never evade or erase, but will always struggle against. The novelist Toni Morrison wrote that Coates filled an intellectual gap in succession to James Baldwin. Editors of The New York Times and The New Yorker described the book as exceptional. The book won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.