Reviews
It was very helpful in understanding the (particularly subtle) racism that is still rampant in the U.S. I highly recommend this book.
I read this book with high expectations, but I debated countless times whether I should finish it.
Living as a Black person in American society, a cry shouted to everyone living as a social minority—no, to every member of this society.
I became interested in this book because it was recommended by Denzel Washington in the movie 'The Equalizer 2', where he saves a Black teenager from the abyss of drugs and violence.
This is a book I came to read after being deeply moved by Coates' writing. I felt as if I had been struck on the head with astonishment. Although I had heard bits and pieces about the dark side of American imperialism since my college days, and had heard somewhat vaguely from acquaintances about what it is like to live as an Asian in America... this is the first time I have encountered writing that so realistically and tragically portrays the reality from a Black perspective. My professor once
Between the world and me. You have never fought against your own myth or narrative, so you cannot discover the plunder happening everywhere around us.
Tanehashi Kotsu: Between the world and me
As we are well aware, the United States granted freedom and equal rights to Black people through the emancipation of slaves and proclaims itself "the greatest and noblest nation that has ever existed on earth." However, paradoxically, racial discrimination persisted well past the mid-20th century and continues to drive Black people into ghettos today through so-called redlining. In 2015–2016, the book *Between the World and Me* was published, sparking a major controversy by making provocative arguments regarding racial issues in American society. The author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, an African American, attributes the killing of Black people in the United States today not merely to the impulsive actions of a few racists or the actions of fanatical groups like the KKK, but to America's "legacy and tradition"—specifically, its history—that built wealth through slavery. The author’s provocative claim that Black people have never been ‘citizens’ in the United States in the first place is based on the incident in which a plainclothes police officer, mistaking Prince, a Black middle-class man for a criminal suspect, shot and killed him, emphasizing that ‘race’ exerts greater power than ‘class’ in American society.
Korean title: 세상과 나 사이
Korean author: 타네하시 코츠
Korean publisher: 열린책들
ISBN-13: 9788932917788
Reviews
It was very helpful in understanding the (particularly subtle) racism that is still rampant in the U.S. I highly recommend this book.
I read this book with high expectations, but I debated countless times whether I should finish it.
Living as a Black person in American society, a cry shouted to everyone living as a social minority—no, to every member of this society.
I became interested in this book because it was recommended by Denzel Washington in the movie 'The Equalizer 2', where he saves a Black teenager from the abyss of drugs and violence.
This is a book I came to read after being deeply moved by Coates' writing. I felt as if I had been struck on the head with astonishment. Although I had heard bits and pieces about the dark side of American imperialism since my college days, and had heard somewhat vaguely from acquaintances about what it is like to live as an Asian in America... this is the first time I have encountered writing that so realistically and tragically portrays the reality from a Black perspective. My professor once
Between the world and me. You have never fought against your own myth or narrative, so you cannot discover the plunder happening everywhere around us.
