Sinossi
«Tra me e il mondo» è una lettera che l'autore scrive al figlio Samori nel giorno del suo quindicesimo compleanno. Coates racconta la storia della sua infanzia nella parte sbagliata di Baltimora, della paura delle strade e delle gang, della scuola, della violenza, della polizia. Vincere questa paura, la paura di perdere il proprio corpo, diventerà lo scopo della sua vita. Per la prima volta la ricostruzione della storia americana riparte da zero; e riparte proprio da Ground Zero - dove ben prima del crollo delle torri gemelle c'era la sede del mercato degli schiavi della città di New York - per arrivare alle continue uccisioni ingiustificate di neri da parte della polizia, una violenza che diventa in questo racconto la storia universale del razzismo. Questo è un libro da cui nessuno uscirà indenne.
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- Pagine: 208
- Data di uscita: 05-07-2018
Recensioni
Sometime early in my reading of this book, I felt in my gut I had encountered a classic. Not a best-seller—this book is already that—but a classic. I envisioned stack upon paperback stack piled on metal shelves in university bookstores, shelves labeled Black Studies 301 but also Basic Comp 100. I co Leggi tutto
I'm not sure what compelled me to pick up this book, but that's true of many books I read. I simply felt like it was something I needed to read at that moment, and I'm very glad I did. Between the World and Me is written as a letter/essay from Coates to his fifteen-year-old son, trying to come to ter Leggi tutto
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Between the World and Me is a non-fiction story which is a letter from a black man to his son, Samori. This book accomplishes what a news article cannot—it describes the feelings of being a black person in America, what it feels like to know that the police are not your friend, that they aren’t there Leggi tutto
Folks that love Mr. Coates will love this book, as they'll be able to follow him through a piece that is somewhat indulgent -- but he certainly won't win new fans or quell his skeptics (like myself) with this piece of work. Coates says that he wanted to write like Baldwin, but it just comes across a Leggi tutto
I've read Coates work in the Atlantic for years now and my fundamental impression of him is unchanged. His limited Black liberal anti-racist appeals to White guilt illustrate his total inability to escape the narrow racial essentialist vision of Black identity. Coates in his book reduces America to
I received this book free for review from ShelfAwareness in exchange for an honest review. Despite the privilege of receiving a free book, I’m absolutely candid about it below because I believe authors and readers will benefit most from honest reviews rather than vacuous 5-star reviews. Written in th Leggi tutto
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