Summary Of Between The World And Me

The racial discrimination in America creates a lack of opportunities and privileges for minorities. That gap adds to the hardship of the black reality. In Between The World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates explains that through the concept of "struggle”. In fact, the exchange between the author and his son Samori serves to introduce the discourse of the “struggle”. Coates insists throughout his text on the need to realize the condition of the black bodies and why one, mostly as a minority, mustn’t get too comfortable and become complacent. What Coates call the struggle, keeps us grounded in contemporary America, which is callous toward black people. As he suggests, it is an everyday battle, that one can’t escape in racial America. Detroit is an example of how black people can’t ignore that oppressive environment. Whether it is, in the household, the neighborhood or the school, these are three-takeaways obstacles that translate in Coates assessment of the black struggle.
Family is the first determinant of the black experience.
However, their struggle is a little different, they are placed in an environment where they are viewed as the minority especially if they attend a large university. When going into spaces like this “You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice.” (pg. 123). In the words of Coates. With that begging said, we mustn’t succumb to the negative stereotypes, but instead push through because just as Coates does not let Samori or his reader forget that each slave was a living, breathing human being with hopes, desires, fears, and the capacity to hurt emotionally and physically we shouldn't either. Using this as motivation, we must continue to move forward and use of past and current struggles as our