Reviews with content warning for Racism - Between the World and Me

It was well penned and put into words the fear of being black.
It’s informative of Coates’ experience and life as a black man in America which is packed with a lot of fear that then turns into anger.
While I agree with the sentiment of Dreamers in America and a majority being white or wanting to be white (ie. having power and authority to inflict destruction), I do not agree with how inflated, fatalist, galactic, racism is portrayed. While it has become cultural and institutionalized -integrated- I do not agree with Coates’ fatalistic view. He ends with the struggle and more of a call for ‘fight for yourself’ instead of strive as a collective.
For this, this book transmits fear and morphs it into anger. As he doesn’t spend nearly as much time on the solution as describing the problem. I can understand where and how he got to his conclusion, but there is a danger in generalising.

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

I listened to the audiobook read by the author and it was fantastic. The writing is so well done and the framing of the novel as a letter to his child was so great. It was such a good glimpse into this man's growth as a human being and a black man. There was something special about this book and the careful way Coates engaged with his own history with different views on race. Many of his observations made me think and look at certain things in a new light.

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