Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
A father writes to his teenage son about growing up black in America, and about the body, history, and the Dream.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Coates wrote it as a letter to his son, Samori, then fifteen. It won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a Pulitzer finalist.
Feels like power and serenity.
What if the categories we treat as natural were the last thing to arrive?
The host read these words for the audience, and when she finished she turned to the subject of my body, although she did not mention it specifically. But by now I am accustomed to intelligent people asking about the condition of my body without realizing the nature of their request. Specifically, the host wished to know why I felt that white America’s progress, or rather the progress of those Americans who believe that they are white, was built on looting and violence. Hearing this, I felt an old and indistinct sadness well up in me. The answer to this question is the record of the believers themselves. The answer is American history. Books by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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