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Between the World and Me
- Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
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Publisher's Summary
Number-one New York Times best seller
National Book Award winner
Named one of Time’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade
Pulitzer Prize finalist
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading”, a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone).
Named one of the Most Influential Books of the Decade by CNN
Named one of Paste’s Best Memoirs of the Decade
Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly
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’ attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son - and listeners - 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.
What the critics say
"Ta-Nehisi Coates's delivery of his own book is so memorable because the material is charged with emotion and a tone of self-disclosure. There's also a highly personal sense of connection between himself and his audience because of his frequent use of 'you.'" (AudioFile)
"The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates's journey, is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive.... This is required reading." (Toni Morrison)
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- tara
- 2017-11-08
what a book that was
a gripping account from beginning to end of a life and struggle of being black. no one should have to endure injustice like this sadly so very many people do. I'm not black myself amd cant comprehend how it is to live life that way but I could connect on a few issues raised later in the book. this book is poetic and honest and so well written. I'm sad it wasn't longer. this book was recommend to me by a friend who was studying it in school and I absolutely recommend it to everyone else
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- sheena
- 2020-06-20
So far away yet so close. A beautiful book.
In this yellow body I wondered my role in this moment on Earth. Empathy seems hollow ,and I do not know how to be closer and do more. This book and his own reading breaks my heart and raise me up again and again. The experiences seem so foreign yet so deeply close. A beautiful book that I recommend for everyone.
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- David Peddle
- 2018-08-09
Anecdotal Rhetoric
I was disappointed with the broad conclusions this author draws with no scientific backing or complex thought.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-04-17
Heartwrenchingly beautiful!
Gorgeous writing. Thank you for this gift. I'm grateful that this story exists! Accessible and challenging at the same time.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-01-12
Devastating.
Reading White Fragility is like putting on a hairshirt. It is punishing, but you never really know why. Coates will tell why - and you can even keep your soft sweater on; it will be forever uncomfortable now.
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- Rebecca Peterson
- 2020-12-17
Heart wrenchingly beautiful prose
Every human should have to listen to Ta-Nehisi Coates read this story and hear this history
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- Mich
- 2020-12-13
Speechless!
This is a work of inspiring art! I hope that everyone truly gets the gravity of what's being read. Not filter it through our biases (if possible) and get the truth in this. Every culture needs to hear what's happening outside their walls.
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- Kerryanne Holness
- 2020-09-11
Beautifully written
I believe every parent and their child should read this book. No matter the race. Humanity and dignity is spoken through each story. I can relate to so much of this book. It was a beautiful, heartmoving read/ listen.
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- Mleoppky
- 2020-09-10
Powerful and poetic
I’m at a loss to adequately describe the experience of this book. It flows in a way I’ve seldom experienced. From the opening sentences to the last word spoken, it was like drifting down a beautiful, awful, intense, wonderful river. The kind you dream will have a happy ending but it’s never seen.
I can’t recommend this experience enough.
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- Alexandra
- 2020-08-25
Incredible
This book was like a full novel of uninterrupted poetic prose. It was at once moving, and revealing. I've already told everyone I know to read it.
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- T Spencer
- 2015-07-30
A Heartfelt Self-aware Literary Masterpiece
This book manages to do something that is rarely accomplished with such a serious subject. It's well thought out and methodical but simultaneous emotional and sincerely heartfelt. Written as a letter to his son Coates explains how to exist in modern day America as a black man. He gets very introspective and deeply personal when sharing annidotes about his life and each story lead to a deeper understanding for him. If I were to write a handbook on how to raise a black male who's conscious of his circumstances but not resigned to other people's ideas of who he is, and taking those lessons to transcend what America thinks he's capable of, this would be that handbook.
After listening to this book, I ordered 10 hardback copies and gave one to each of my nephews and my uncles. I find myself quoting Ta-Nehisi now like some pretentious fanboy posting Bieber lyrics on twitter. But that's how much this literary masterpiece touched me and continues to resonate after reading it 3 times (with more to come).
Suffice to say, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys discovering new literary geniuses in the making. He's an enjoyable narrator with a soothing baritone voice. I love when authors narrate their own books. The pacing and his vocal inflection was pitch perfect throughout. 5 stars all around.
275 people found this helpful
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- Shana
- 2015-08-11
Beautifully expressed
As the mother of a white son, I know that I can never understand the fear of any person of any color trying to raise a son into adulthood. This book comes very close to helping me see through this fathers eyes. Thank you.
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- Altruistic One
- 2016-07-01
Shocking. Illuminating. Deep. Depressing.
if and when you read this, be prepared for an Illuminating story. And though much of my own life can be measured in many of the same challenges, it is the shockingly depressing manner in which the story is told that I take issue. in my opinion, this chapter could have been read in a far better delivery, notwithstanding the author's own voice.
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- Kezia
- 2015-07-30
Absolutely. Everything.
I felt like a fly on the wall as I listened to Coates counsel his son. The words are so powerful on their own and become electrified by the author's voice - a deep, Baltimore, accent that paints a vivid picture. I'd recommend this book for every American who gives a damn about the nation's future and knows an ounce about its past. Great read.
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- George Dorsey
- 2015-08-08
A definite must.
This is the first bit literature that I've come across that gives my and my friends experiences a voice. I could never put into words what I and my family went through in the Cabrini Green projects of chicago, but this book does just that and with reflection of how people like myself view America in its current state.
I wish I could thank the author in person.
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- Sutapa Chattopadhyay
- 2018-03-02
An eye opener of a book!
Something I am learning gradually. The murders of Trevon Martin, Michael Brown, especially Eric Garner, the injustice of it was apparent. But I learned a lot about how African Americans feel about this and how fragile they feel their lives are.
It does seem as if the "American Dream" is built on the backs of African Americans and American Indians.
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- Scott Andrew Williams
- 2015-12-07
Wake up!
I used to think these kind of books were justifications. But now I see that this is an explanation by an individual to an individual. I cannot apply this perspective to all; I can only mourn the fact the perspective is a reality in someone's life; therefore, it is a reality.
There is work to be done. On myself. On my mind. But first, I must wake up from this dream.
Thank you, Mr. Coates.
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- audrey
- 2019-06-09
Not at all what I had hoped to read
I could not finish this book. I purchased it b/c my son had read it for a class. I was not at all intrigued and it became laborious to continue to listen to it.
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- GMLAW
- 2015-07-15
Really really good read
As a black woman born and raised in Jamaica and that did not know I was black and overweight until I moved here in 1991, this book gives context, not necessarily answers but context to so many questions I've had over the years regarding my experiences living here.
Thank you so much.
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- lvbxoxox
- 2015-08-04
Required reading
As an parent, educator and citizen, I believe is one of the most important books of our time. It is time for those of us who have called ourselves white to listen with an open heart and believe with an open mind. This is the book that will change us into loving activists with no fear of reality. It never rains in Northern California in July, but as I listened to the last line, the sky opened up to wash away all of my old ideas of history. Fitting.
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- Bea
- 2020-06-26
Un tremblement de terre
Sans doute l’un des livres les plus remarquables que j’ai lu ces dernières années dont la portée, bien au-delà du seul contexte américain, est universelle. Comment chaque rêve de société se construit aux dépens d’une partie de la population, en l’isolant et la désignant comme autre. Et tout ça pour échapper à la peur, pour se donner l’illusion d’être invincible. En plus du fond, le style de l’auteur est magnifique. Important. Essentiel même. Je le recommande à tout être qui se veut humain.