"Between The World And Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
“…assertions skate over the very real — and still dismally insufficient — progress that has been made… in fact, his book often reads like an internal dialogue or debate…” – Michiko Kakutani (New York Times – July 2015) “The narrative focuses the experience of black subjectivity in the visceral, constructed fact of ‘the body’, a device derived from Foucault by way of feminist discourse… Coates admits that he didn’t really know any white people when he was a child: he only saw them on television. That is an indictment of the segregation that still exists in many American neighbourhoods…” – Thomas Chatterton Williams, “Loaded Dice” (London Review Of Books – December 2015) “Between The World And Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates is the second book I’ve read by a black man. The first book I read about black life in America was Richard Wright’s “Black Boy”. The two offer very different perspectives. Wright’s first person autobiographical narrative describes his childhood through adulthood as a haz...