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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

I loved the format of a letter to the author's son. This book brings some peace and understanding to all the chaos and contradictions in the greater discussion about living black. Just read it, its so good.

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

This book is beautifully written. A must read

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

This was an honest, necessary memoir told through the loving voice of a father to his son. Coates in his book puts into words all of the painful, and beautiful, and dangerous, and also incredibly mundane things that being Black can mean. He writes with urgency and with the voice of a man who has spent decades on his craft. Reading this intimate book felt almost invasive at times as Coates laid vulnerabilities bare for the child who likely still sees him as a superhero.

From this book, I have come to better understand that I am white (or whatever people see me as) at all times. I will never be Black and have my body, my sole physical connection to the world and those I love, made to look as a threat or of less value to those in power. It was humbling to read both as a white-passing person and as a human being.

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