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Coates’s “Between the World and Me” is written as a direct address between an African American father and his son—and not just a generic African American father and son, but, we learn as we read, a very specific pair defined by family, circumstance, place, and time.
Whatever your race or gender, where, as a reader, do you locate yourself in this exchange? Where do you find yourself most engaged? Where do you feel that you, too, are being addressed or invited to respond? As you reread, mark places where you feel, as a reader, an opening in this selection. What does it mean, or what does it take, to be a reader in the face of a text like this one?
Write an essay, perhaps in the shape of a review for a magazine or newspaper, in which you consider this book’s considerable success and the demands it places on its readers.
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Between The World and Me
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The book ‘Between the World and Me’ is the author’s letter to his 15 year old son.
Coates narrates his historical and personal development into his reflections on how to survive in
America in a black body. Coates recounts that the black body’s destruction is not only embedded
in slavery but also in the Civil War, police brutality, racial profiling, as well as the depressing
Jim Crow laws. All through his work, Coates is quite successful in capturing the reader’s
attention and emotions through a vast application of rhetorical and strategic appeals.
Coates begins by reviewing an occurrence in which he had been summoned educate
white people about his perspectives on racism and the black body prejudice in the American
history. His lecture is however made troublesome by the fact that there is such a colossal gulf
between black people and the people he is requested to address. He brings up that confirmation
of this gulf lies in the way that he is being requested to clarify his perspectives, when in his mind
all the essential evidence and proof is entrenched in the white people’s mythology of American
history. This book makes a vivid argument that black people are generally segregated and looked
down upon. ...
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