A letter from a father to his son about what it means to inhabit a Black body in America.
Books mentioned in Between the World and Me (6)
Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams: “When I came to Howard, Chancellor Williams's Destruction of Black Civilization was my Bible.”
Children of the Sun by George Wells Parker: “It was in the promise behind their grand titles— Children of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Kushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization.”
Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire by Drusilla D Houston: “It was in the promise behind their grand titles— Children of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Kushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization.”
The African Origin of Civilization by Cheikh Anta Diop: “It was in the promise behind their grand titles— Children of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Kushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization.”
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote: “fell in love with New York through culture, through Crossing Delancey, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Working Girl, Nas, and Wu-Tang.”
Out of the House of Bondage by Thavolia Glymph: “I had not yet been to Gettysburg. I had not read Thavolia Glymph.”
Books that mention Between the World and Me (1)
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo: “You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body. —Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (chapter epigraph)”