Written as a letter from a father to his son, Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s urgent, unflinching meditation on what it means to live in a Black body in America.
Tracing personal moments of revelation—from his youth in Baltimore to Howard University, from Parisian streets to the painful realities of police violence—Coates lays bare the country’s long and ongoing history of racial injustice. In doing so, he offers not just a memoir, but a manifesto of understanding, reckoning, and hope.
A #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner, this groundbreaking work has reshaped the national conversation on race.
Profoundly personal, piercingly insightful, and beautifully written, Between the World and Me is essential reading—for every generation.
