Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has published three non-fiction books: The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, O, and other publications. Ĭoates has worked for The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, and Time. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy. Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates ( / ˌ t ɑː n ə ˈ h ɑː s i/ TAH-nə- HAH-see born September 30, 1975) is an American author and journalist.
This review offers a detailed summary of the main themes of the book, followed by an analysis.
The book is styled as a letter to the author's fourteen year old son and is broken into three chapters.
The book explores race relations in contemporary America with a focus on the lived experience of the author, and a conceptual framework that locates the effects of racism on the black body, traceable both through history and in the contemporary context. In Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates was published in 2014 in the wake of several highly public acts of police violence against black men and the death of nine black parishioners at a church in South Carolina at the hands of a white supremacist. If you have not yet bought the original copy, make sure to purchase it before buying this unofficial summary from aBookaDay. Warning This is an independent addition to Between the World and Me, meant to enhance your experience of the original book.
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