Between the World and Me
A father's letter to his son about being Black in America.
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Présentation
Written as a letter to his teenage son, Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me confronts the feelings, symbolism and realities associated with being Black in the United States. Recapitulating American history through his own coming of age in Baltimore, Howard University and beyond, Coates asks how to live within a Black body in a country built, he argues, on its exploitation. Winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and a worldwide bestseller, it is a short, intense book whose power lies as much in its prose as in its argument — a personal essay that has become a contemporary classic, discussed and debated far beyond the United States.