After the book “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates was published in the USA in 2015, it has also been available in German since the beginning of 2016. Out of the reality of ongoing racial discrimination and violence against Black people in the U.S., the author writes his manifesto, addressing his 15-year-old son in the form of a letter. What follows is a relentless and harrowing inventory of the racism-ridden social conditions in which both find themselves as Black people. In addressing his son, Coates prepares him for ongoing experiences of marginalization and danger as they currently exist and must be expected in the future.
Ta-Nehisi Coates 2016: Between Me and the World. Munich: Carl Hanser.
If you don’t have a bookstore worth supporting near you, you can also buy the book from the alternative non-profit online bookstore links-lesen.de, which supports political projects with the profits. The link to the book is: http: //www.links-lesen.de/article/978-3-446-25107-6