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African-Americans have always been labeled as a minority and will be for many, many decades to come. People of African descent have always been ranked lower than the white race in regards to finance, literacy, and success. The period of the American enslavement of Africans lasted for approximately two hundred and fifty years. During this time, they were denied payment for their brutal labor and forbidden from learning to read or write, leaving them severely illiterate. The ramifications of inhibition expanded while their “master” only progressed at the expense of the slaves’ labor. Caucasians built their fortune and educated their children as African-Americans were pushed farther away from that goal every single day. Once slaves were freed in 1865, there was a better life expected, blacks had “rights” now. They had been “taken care of” for all their lives, and now they are in the economic and educational attempting to make a living. Another brutal oppression came forth. “But their social position deteriorated when post Civil War Reconstruction ended and the Southern states began to pass “Jim Crow” laws, which required the segregation of blacks from whites in schools, public transportation, restaurants, and other public places” (Pollard 5). A new man made obstacle was placed on the course to success for African Americans. It was difficult to equivalently compete through the

Between the World and Me, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, is written as a letter to his son about realities associated with being black in the United States of America. His tone is somewhat poetic and quite bleak, based on his personal experiences. The book is intense, it is an address to a nation that ignores its own blatant history of racism, a nation that does not prosecute police officers who kill innocent black citizens, a nation that supports a policy of mass incarceration. He writes about growing up in Baltimore, Maryland and details the ways in which institutions (school, police, and the streets) discipline, endanger, and threaten to harm black men and women. Between the World and Me is an intimate confession of the fears of a black American father.

“Between the World and Me”, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, is a letter written to his son about what it means to be black and how tough it is to be a part of this race in the United States of America. In this book, Coates talks about his life in the black community, starting from childhood memories all the way to present day. Coates also tries sends a message, which is that his son should not lower his guard and be completely confident about who he is, instead he should be afraid about what the world is capable of doing to a black man. In this work, Coates disagrees on what it means to be black or white in America.

First, ask yourself how would you feel after hearing the news that one of your family members had been lynched? Throughout the chapters 1-8, we can experience and observe the disheartening history of violence and lies. It is additionally an irritating depiction of a partitioned country on the very edge of the social equality development and an eerie contemplation on race, history, and the battle for truth. Throughout history, the conditions of the lynching, how it affected the legislators of the day, quickened the social equality development and keeps on shadowing the Georgia people group where these homicides occurred. During the 1900s until 19600s various African-Americans experienced various harsh conditions of violence, never being granted the right to vote and being segregated from whites based on their race and skin-color from their white masters. In general racism between whites and blacks can be seen throughout the globe during the era of slavery

In the United States, there has been many cases of Racial injustice. From the beginning of the start of the United States of America it was the injustice to the Native Americans being captured and used for slave labor while their bison be slaughtered for sportsmanship. But this paper is on the specific race of the African Americans. There are many races that have been racially profiled and ostracized by the English people. But the treatment that African Americans have endured even till this day is disheartening. African Americans have gone through enslavement during the early 1600’s to the mid 1800’s. Then the African Americans were obstructed by the Jim Crow laws creating the ‘Separate but Equal” propaganda during the late 1800’s into the 1960’s. After the abolishment of the Jim Crow Laws, people were considered equal until the recent actions of many police officers using deadly force on African American youths in the early 2000’s.

Between the World and Me has been called a book about race, but the author argues that race itself is a flawed, if anything, nothing more than a pretext for racism. Early in the book he writes, “Race, is the child of racism, not the father.” The idea of race has been so important in the history of America and in the self-identification of its people and racial designations have literally marked the difference between life and death in some instances. How does discrediting the idea of race as an immutable, unchangeable fact changes the way we look at our history? Ourselves? In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and the current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me has been compared favorably with James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. The book begins with a letter to his nephew which Coats mimics in writing to his son. Themes of ‘Bodies’ related to racial identity, the experience of being black in America, and how to break down racial barriers are very prominent in both books however they vary slightly.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s persona in Between the World and Me is a Social Justice warrior regarded through the eyes of a concerned parent. To address the issues he has experienced to other ethnicities and his son. Throughout the essay, Coates slowly shifts his views on the world due to new events and achieved realization through college and the birth of his son. Events he experienced in the diversity of his campus and real world situations raising a child. After meeting new girls and people on the campus at Howard University, he comes to the realization of the differences in humans.

   Violence seems to be quite a common topic in black American literature of the first decades of the 20th century. One major reason for this is probably that it was important for black authors not to be quiet about the injustices being done to them. The violence described in the texts is not only of the physical kind, but also psychological: the constant harassment and terrorising. The ever-present violence had such an effect on the black that they just could not fight back to stop the injustices.

In the Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates addresses to his son, what it is like being black in the United States. He explains what race is in America and how it shapes us as a country. He examines both personal and historic events to explain to his son what it is like to be black. Coates offers no answer to any of the problems, but he provides his son with his own experience and thoughts. Coates teaches many different lessons to his son, but he puts extreme emphasis on the fact that despite the black body is fragile, the black mind is not.

“Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates depicts the beautiful struggle the author faced growing up. The book opens with Coates describing how he felt during an interview when asked a question that indirectly inquired on the state of his body. He then goes into a summary of American history dealing with race relations. Coates states that he is writing the book for his 15-year-old son during a time of many wrongful killings of young blacks by police officers. Along with including what he learned from his rough upbringing in the ghetto of Baltimore, he also discussed his time at Howard University. Howard University taught him as many lessons in life as it did in the famed Douglas Hall. Throughout the book he mentions

Between the World and Me is a long letter that Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his teenage son, Samori. Coates uses history and past experiences to express to his son how America does not value the black man’s body. Coates starts by telling of what it was like for him growing up in Baltimore. How he saw black men dress and carry themselves in attempts to possess themselves and power. He then talks about the awakening of his black consciousness at Howard University. Howard is where he first started learning about the contributions of black people in American history. He also was introduced to a variety of different types of black people. Howard is also where Coates experienced the death of a close friend, Prince Jones, that catapults the most powerful message in his novel; The American Dream is an insidious idea glorified by whites and the media that was built on the marginalization of black people.

Between the World and Me examines the history and present circumstances of racial inequality and segregation in America. Coates directs the book to Samori to give his audience personal insight into the various stages of a black man’s life. From his childhood, to his college experience, to his complicated role as a father, Coates gradually unfolds a critical account of the relationship between black and white communities. He calls those who “believe themselves to be white” the “Dreamers” and criticizes them for the indifference toward black people 's experiences. He wants the audience to reflect upon themselves and realize that they are part of the problem.

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is an analysis of racial issues in the United States in form of letter from Coates to his son. The novel carries a variety of different messages, however the most vital message in the reading is that it is “traditional for America to destroy the black body”(Coates). As shown in history black people, men, women, and children were held against their will, shackled, beaten, raped, and tortured. Now black people face brutality and injustice in a more covert form, nevertheless still detrimental and still harming. Now, African Americans face police brutality and unjustifiable shootings.

Since well before the Civil Rights Movement, as far back as the Civil War or even the beginning of the African Slave Trade during the Colonial Era, black people have been portrayed as an inferior race by the predominantly white, Christian society in which they were forcibly integrated. Stereotypes created by this society, which