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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

91 reviews

alexisgarcia's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

such a raw and emotional book, such an important read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Grief, Gun violence, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

unomi57's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

deidrelj's review

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, Police brutality, Racism, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, and Racial slurs

estanza's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racial slurs, and Death

nnennaya_'s review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Police brutality, Slavery, and Grief

audc's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Racial slurs, Rape, Blood, Physical abuse, and Violence

gilberik's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Such a great read, thoughtful and emotional. Definitely puts things in perspective and push your thoughts further. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Death, Murder, and Police brutality

steffilietzke's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Gun violence, Police brutality, Grief, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol

mirandyli's review

emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

What a beautifully written book. Ta-Nehisi Coates is truly an artist with the written word.

Spoiler

Through this letter to his son, he is ending the cycle of generational trauma. However, there is nothing he can do to end the cycle of racism in America. He, like all Black children, was told by everyone to be twice as good. White children aren't told to be twice as good. In fact, they are told to take twice as much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Grief, Gun violence, Slavery, Classism, Death, Police brutality, and Racism

sharrikloves's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, and Death