Ta-Nehisi Coates and his son, Samari (from Between the World and Me, courtesy of Spiegel & Grau) have been endowed with the authority to destroy your body.” To Coates, his body and the bodies of his black ancestors have continuously been destroyed, sold, and viewed as inferior to “White America.” He writes of the acts that have oppressed and violated black bodies through history and how this violation of identity and dreams continues today.
He illuminates how history, social constructs, and current events merge to create a society where, “police departments. In his book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his fifteen-year-old son about what it means to be a black man living in a black body.
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