An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates

I read your book Between the World and Me, an elegant and poetic elegy written to your son on "the question," as you put it, "of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the [American] Dream." But your book, while moving, reads primarily like an American...

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Published in:Commentary (New York) 2017-10, Vol.144 (3), p.35
Main Author: Hill, Jason D
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
American culture
American history
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Immigration
Race relations
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Summary:I read your book Between the World and Me, an elegant and poetic elegy written to your son on "the question," as you put it, "of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the [American] Dream." But your book, while moving, reads primarily like an American horror story and, I'm sorry to say, a declaration of war against my adopted country.
ISSN:0010-2601
1943-4634