![]() (The New York Times said it was “essential, like water or air.”) Coates, 39, a staff writer at the Atlantic magazine, conceived of his book as a letter to his teenage son Samori, just as 50 years ago, James Baldwin, the great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement, wrote his seminal work, The Fire Next Time, as a missive to his young nephew.Ĭoates’s book is a profound and angry address to a nation that refuses to prosecute police officers who kill innocent black men and women that pursues a policy of mass incarceration hugely weighted towards its black population and that routinely seems to think nothing of it. I n the US, where it has topped the New York Times bestseller list over the summer, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book Between the World and Me has been hailed as the unmissable document of the current #ICan’tBreathe state of race relations.
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