Between the World and Me

Thoughtful and compelling conversation about the black body - its security and lack thereof, its currency in America, its commodification. It was unusual to me, the sensation of separation between the person and the body. I particularly appreciated Coates' thoughts on traveling through other countries where the black body is not treated in the same ways it is in America (but being unable to separate feelings and fears from a life experienced in the body); his perceptions of Sept. 11, that first responders are described as heroes but are of the same systems that destroy and eliminate black bodies; and his description of “people who think they are white” - something I had not thought before.