Between the World and Me von Ta-Nehisi Coates
Winner of the National Book Award 2015

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 176 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Verlag: Penguin Random HouseSpiegel&Grau
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780525510307
Auflage / Bände: INT

I ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language ofBetween the World and Me,like Coates s journey, is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory. This is required reading.Toni Morrison<br><br>Powerful and passionate . . . profoundly moving . . . a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today.Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times<br><br>Really powerful and emotional.John Legend,The Wall Street Journal<br><br>Extraordinary . . . [Coates] writes an impassioned letter to his teenage son a letter both loving and full of a parent s dread counseling him on the history of American violence against the black body, the young African-American s extreme vulnerability to wrongful arrest, police violence, and disproportionate incarceration.David Remnick,The New Yorker<br><br>Brilliant . . . a riveting meditation on the state of race in America . . . [Coates] is firing on all cylinders, and it is something to behold: a mature writer entirely consumed by a momentous subject and working at the extreme of his considerable powers at the very moment national events most conform to his vision.The Washington Post<br><br>An eloquent blend of history, reportage, and memoir written in the tradition of James Baldwin with echoes of Ralph Ellison sInvisible Man. . . It is less a typical memoir of a particular time and place than an autobiography of the black body in America. . . . Coates writes with tenderness, especially of his wife, child, and extended family, and with frankness. . . . Coates s success, in this book and elsewhere, is due to his lucidity and innate dignity, his respect for himself and for others. He refuses to preach or talk down to white readers or to plead for acceptance: He never wonders why we just can t all get along. He knows government policies make getting along near impossible.The Boston Globe<br><br>For someone who proudly calls himself an atheist, Coates gives us a whole lot of Can I get an amen? in this slim and essential volume of familial joy and rigorous struggle. . . . [He] has become the most sought-after public intellectual on the issue of race in America, with good reason.Between the World and Me. . . is at once a magnification and a distillation of our existence as black people in a country we were not meant to survive. It is a straight tribute to our strength, endurance and grace. . . . [Coates] speaks resolutely and vividly to all of black America.Los Angeles Times<br><br>A crucial book during this moment of generational awakening.The New Yorker<br><br>A work that s both titanic and timely,Between the World and Meis the latest essential reading in America s social canon.Entertainment Weekly<br><br>Coates delivers a beautiful lyrical call for consciousness in the face of racial discrimination in America. . . .Between the World and Meis in the same mode ofThe Fire Next Time;it is a book designed to wake you up. . . . An exhortation against blindness.The Guardian<br><br>Coates has crafted a deeply moving and poignant letter to his own son. . . . [His] book is a compelling mix of history, analysis and memoir.Between the World and Meis a much-needed artifact to document the times we are living in [from] one of the leading public intellectuals of our generation. . . . The experience of having a sage elder speak directly to you in such lyrical, gorgeous prose language bursting with the revelatory thought and love of black life is a beautiful thing.The Root<br><br>Rife with love, sadness, anger and struggle,Between the World and Mecharts a path through the American gauntlet for both the black child who will inevitably walk the world alone and for the black parent who must let that child walk away.Newsday<br><br>Poignant, revelatory and exceedingly wise,Between the World and Meis an essential clarion call to our collective conscience. We ignore it at our own peril.San Francisco Chronicle<br><br>Masterfully written . . . powerful storytelling.New York Post<br><br>One of the most riveting and heartfelt books to appear in some time . . . The book achieves a level of clarity and eloquence reminiscent of Ralph Ellison s classicInvisible Man. . . . The perspective [Coates] brings to American life is one that no responsible citizen or serious scholar can safely ignore.Foreign Affairs<br><br>Urgent, lyrical, and devastating in its precision, Coates has penned a new classic of our time.Vogue<br><br>Powerful.The Economist<br><br>A work of rare beauty and revelatory honesty . . .Between the World and Meis a love letter written in a moral emergency, one that Coates exposes with the precision of an autopsy and the force of an exorcism. . . . Coates is frequently lauded as one of America s most important writers on the subject of race today, but this in fact undersells him: Coates is one of America s most important writers on the subject of America today. . . . [He s] a polymath whose breadth of knowledge on matters ranging from literature to pop culture to French philosophy to the Civil War bleeds through every page of his book, distilled into profound moments of discovery, immensely erudite but never showy.Slate<br><br>The most important book I ve read in years . . . an illuminating, edifying, educational, inspiring experience.Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center<br><br>It s an indescribably enlightening, enraging, important document about being black in America today. Coates is perhaps the best we have, and this book is perhaps the best he s ever been.Deadspin<br><br>Vital reading at this moment in America.U.S. News&World Report<br><br>[Coates] has crafted a highly provocative, thoughtfully presented, and beautifully written narrative. . . . Much of what Coates writes may be difficult for a majority of Americans to process, but that s the incisive wisdom of it. Read it, think about it, take a deep breath and read it again. The spirit of James Baldwin lives within its pages.The Christian Science Monitor<br><br>Part memoir, part diary, and wholly necessary, it is precisely the document this country needs right now.New Republic<br><br>A moving testament to what it means to be black and an American in our troubled age . . .Between the World and Mefeels of-the-moment, but like James Baldwin s celebrated 1963 treatiseThe Fire Next Time,it stands to become a classic on the subject of race in America.The Seattle Times<br><br>Riveting . . . Coates delivers a fiery soliloquy dissecting the tradition of the erasure of African-Americans beginning with the deeply personal.MinneapolisStar Tribune<br><br>[Between the World and Me] is not a Pollyanna, coming-of-age memoir about how idyllic life was growing up in America. It is raw. It is searing. . . . [It s] a book that should be read and shared by everyone, as it is a story that painfully and honestly explores the age-old question of what it means to grow up black and male in America.The Baltimore Sun<br><br>A searing indictment of America s legacy of violence, institutional and otherwise, against blacks.Chicago Tribune<br><br>I know that this book is addressed to the author s son, and by obvious analogy to all boys and young men of color as they pass, inexorably, into harm s way. I hope that I will be forgiven, then, for feeling that Ta-Nehisi Coates was speaking to me, too, one father to another, teaching me that real courage is the courage to be vulnerable, to admit having fallen short of the mark, to stay open-heartedand curious in the face of hate and lies, to remain skeptical when there is so much comfort in easy belief, to acknowledge the limits of our power to protect our children from harm and, hardest of all, to see how the burden of our need to protect becomes a burden on them, one that we must, sooner or later, have the wisdom and the awful courage to surrender.Michael Chabon<br><br>Ta-Nehisi Coates is the James Baldwin of our era, and this is hiscri de coeur. A brilliant thinker at the top of his powers, he has distilled four hundred years of history and his own anguish and wisdom into a prayer for his beloved son and an invocation to the conscience of his country.Between the World and Meis an instant classic and a gift to us all.Isabel Wilkerson, author ofThe Warmth of Other Suns"Ein großartiges Buch: Eine hellsichtige Rassismusstudie."Stefan Grissemann, profil, 17.12.16<br /><br />"Die Bibel der'Black Lives Matter'-Bewegung."Christiane Müller-Lobeck, taz am Wochenende, 03.12.16<br /><br />"Ta-Nehisi Coates ist einer der wenigen amerikanischen Intellektuellen, dem alle vertrauen. In der schwarzen Community gilt sein Buch als eine Art Manifest. ... Zugleich ist er nun für Hunderttausende weiße Leser eine Autorität."Matthias Kolb, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 04.11.16<br /><br />"Ein gleichermaßen kämpferisches wie poetisches Buch ... Dieses Buch ist aus keiner zukünftigen Diskussion um Rassisimus wegzudenken."Dr. Philipp Tingler, Tages-Anzeiger Online, 29.06.16<br /><br />"Coates'lyrisch-schwärmerische Sprache nimmt einen schwungvoll bei der Hand, von Malcolm X bis zum'Mekka'der Howard University. .. Ein bewegender Text."Dominik Kamalzadeh, 30.04.16<br /><br />"Wichtig, denn die Lust, sich kulturell abzugrenzen, wird auch hierzulande immer größer."Benno Fürmann, Der Tagesspiegel, 17.03.16<br /><br />"Der Band ist atemlos geschrieben, dringlich im Tonfall, wiewohl schlüssig argumentiert."Julian Weber, die tageszeitung, 16.03.16<br /><br />"Ein tief persönliches, radikal subjektives, aber durchgehend leidenschaftliches und niemals langweiliges Manifest."Katja Ridderbusch, Deutschlandfunk, 07.03.16<br /><br />"Coates'Essay ist der klügste und wichtigste Text, der 2015 in den USA erschienen ist, eine kühne, selbstbewusste Zäsur."Christian Bos, Frankfurter Rundschau, 04.03.16<br /><br />"Coates'Buch, das in einer lyrisch gesteigerten, zornbebenden Prosa verfasst ist, ist ein emotional hochgerüstetes'J'accuse', das seinen Verfasser als Erben von Malcolm X und der Black-Panther-Bewegung ausweist."Andrea Köhler, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 25.02.16<br /><br />"In dieser Zeit ist Coates'Buch mehr alsüberfällig."Renée Zucker, rbb Inforadio, 14.02.16<br /><br />"Coates hat ein dichtes, drängendes, ein beklemmendes und atemberaubendes Buch verfasst. ... Es ist die Verteidigungsschrift eines Schwarzen, der auf verlorenem Posten steht, und sich den Mund dennoch nicht verbieten lässt. Ta-Nehisi Coates'Buch ist mutig und verzweifelt, aus Angst geboren, von Trauer bestimmt und radikal in seinem Erkenntnisdrang. Ein Aufruf zum Wandel."Stefan Berkholz, SWR2, 14.02.16<br /><br />"'Zwischen mir und der Welt'ist ein beeindruckendes und kämpferisches, gleichzeitig ein skeptisches Buch, das die Anliegen der schwarzen Bürgerrechtsbewegung in unserer gegenwärtigen Epoche auf den Punkt bringt."Michael Hochgschwender, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 06.02.16<br /><br />"Das explosivste Buch der aktuellen Rassismus-Debatte. ... Der Text zur Stunde. ... Man könnte alles wissen, was in diesem Buch steht, man weiß es auch. Dennoch trifft es einen wie ein Schock."Jörg Häntzschel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 05.02.16<br /><br />"Diese Metaphysik des Physischen, eingehüllt in einen unwiderstehlich eindringlichen Ton, packt den Leser an der Gurgel. Sie schlägt ihm in die Magengrube."Gregor Dotzauer, Der Tagesspiegel, 03.02.16<br /><br />"Ein sehr wütendes. erschütterndes, pathetisches Pamphlet."Ruth Fühner, hr2 Kultur, 03.02.16<br /><br />"Eine schonungslose Analyse der Gewalt gegen Schwarze und eine literarisch anspruchsvolle Betrachtung des systemischen Rassismus."Nils Minkmar, Der Spiegel, 01.02.16<br /><br />"Coates ist spätestens seit dem vergangenen Jahr die prägnanteste Stimme der afro-amerikanischen Intellektuellen. Mit seinem Buch, das nun in Deutschland erschienen ist, hat er den Toten der jüngeren Vergangenheit ein schriftliches Denkmal gesetzt."Barbara Junge, Der Tagesspiegel, 01.02.16<br /><br />"Der Ton, die Dringlichkeit seines Anliegens, aber auch seine Analyse der strukturellen Gewalt gegen Schwarze in den Vereinigten Staaten sind bestechend. ... Ta-Nehisi Coates ist einer der interessantesten amerikanischen Intellektuellen derzeit. ... Coates Buch ist auch für Europäer höchst lesenswert. Denn Rassismus ist keineswegs ausschließlich eine amerikanische Angelegenheit."Tanja Dückers, Die Welt, 23.01.16<br /><br />"LanDieses Buch ist aus keiner zukünftigen Diskussion um Rassismus wegzudenken."Pflichtlektüre!"Toni MorrisonI.<br><br>. . . we sprawl in gray chains in a place full of winters when what we want is the sun<br><br>Amira Baraka, Ka Ba<br><br>Son,<br><br>Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the far west side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak. When the host asked me about my body, her face faded from the screen, and was replaced by a scroll of words, written by me earlier that week.<br><br>The host read these words for the audience, and when she finished she turned to the subject of my body, although she did not mention it specifically. But by now I am accustomed to intelligent people asking about the condition of my body without realizing the nature of their request. Specifically, the host wished to know why I felt that white America s progress, or rather the progress of those Americans who believe that they are white, was built on looting and violence. Hearing this, I felt an old and indistinct sadness well up in me. The answer to this question is the rec­ord of the believers themselves. The answer is American history.<br><br>There is nothing extreme in this statement. Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. But democracy is a forgiving God and America s heresies­torture, theft, enslavement ­are so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. In fact, Americans, in a real sense, have never betrayed their God. When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth, he was not merely being aspirational; at the onset of the Civil War, the United States of America had one of the highest rates of suffrage in the world. The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant government of the people but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term people to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. Thus America s problem is not its betrayal of government of the people, but the means by which the people acquired their names.<br><br>This leads us to another equally important ideal, one that Americans implicitly accept but to which they make no conscious claim. Americans believe in the reality of race as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism­the need to ascribe bone-­deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them ­inevitably follows from this inalterable condition. In this way, racism is rendered as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and one is left to deplore the Middle Passage or the Trail of Tears the way one deplores an earthquake, a tornado, or any other phenomenon that can be cast as beyond the handiwork of men.<br><br>But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming the people has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible­this is the new idea at the heart of this new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.<br><br>These new people are, like us, a modern invention. But unlike us, their new name has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. The new people were something else be#1NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NAMED ONE OFTIMES TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTONE OF OPRAH S BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGHNOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT<br><br>Hailed by Toni Morrison as required reading, a bold and personal literary exploration of America s racial history by  the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race (Rolling Stone)<br><br>NAMED ONE OF THENEW YORK TIMESS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNNNAMED ONE OFPASTES BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE<br><br>ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New York Times Book Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, New York, Newsday, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly<br><br>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 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?<br><br>Between the World and Meis 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 world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage,Between the World and Meclearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.Wenn in den USA schwarze Teenager von Polizisten ermordet werden, ist das nur ein Problem von individueller Verfehlung? Nein, denn rassistische Gewalt ist fest eingewebt in die amerikanische Identität - sie ist das, worauf das Land gebaut ist. Afroamerikaner besorgten als Sklaven seinen Reichtum und sterben als freie Bürger auf seinen Straßen. In seinem schmerzhaften, leidenschaftlichen Manifest verdichtet Ta-Nehisi Coates amerikanische und persönliche Geschichte zu einem Appell an sein Land, sich endlich seiner Vergangenheit zu stellen. Sein Buch wurde in den USA zum Nr.-1-Bestseller und ist schon jetzt ein Klassiker, auf den sich zukünftig alle Debatten um Rassismus beziehen werden.4USTa-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the Sterling Brown endowed chair at Howard University in the English department.

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