Moorland-Spingharn Research Center, Howard University (Wikimedia Commons)įlash forward to Coate’s college career. He admits in his book that he was a curious kid and the school he attended was not interested in cultivating his curiosity and talents but instead concerned with compliance and instilling false morality. But fail to comprehend schools and you gave up your body later.” Educators presented school to Coates as a means to escape jail and death from violence on the streets. Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. In writing Between the World and Me, Coates recalls how his experiences at Howard University in Washington, DC differed greatly from the experiences he had while in middle and high school in West Baltimore. In regards to his school experience in West Baltimore, Coates explains, “if the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left. Ta-Nehisi Coates and his son, Samari (from Between the World and Me, courtesy of Spiegel & Grau) have been endowed with the authority to destroy your body.” To Coates, his body and the bodies of his black ancestors have continuously been destroyed, sold, and viewed as inferior to “White America.” He writes of the acts that have oppressed and violated black bodies through history and how this violation of identity and dreams continues today.

He illuminates how history, social constructs, and current events merge to create a society where, “police departments.

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