by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Written as a letter to his teenage son, Coates argues that American history is built on the plunder of Black bodies and that the Dream of white American innocence depends on that plunder remaining invisible. He urges his son to live inside the struggle for freedom while rejecting the consolations of redemption narratives.
In this collection, Between the World and Me references 3 other books.
It draws on The Lessons of History, The Denial of Death and Existentialism Is a Humanism.
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Builds on Durant-style historical synthesis, tracing how slavery's afterlives structure present-day wealth, housing, and policing
Echoes Becker's Denial of Death in its insistence on the body as the ultimate site of vulnerability and the Dream as denial of mortality through racial hierarchy
Resonates with Sartre's Existentialism Is a Humanism in Coates's atheistic insistence on confronting meaninglessness without the consolation of divine justice
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