Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Date: 2015
Genre: Autobiography
Country: USA
It was written by Coates as a letter to his then-teenage son about his perception of what the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States are. Coates recapitulates American history and explains to his son “racist violence that has been woven into American culture.” Coates draws from an abridged, autobiographical account of his youth in Baltimore, detailing his beliefs about the ways in which, to him, institutions like schools, the local police, and even “the streets” discipline, endanger, and threaten to “disembody” black men and women.