Narrative
This happens in the 7-11 parking lot when Coates is a kid.
What is another boy pulls a gun on him.
What Coates has an unusual amount of access to as a child.
What is books.
How Cotes refers to Howard University.
The Mecca
What type of literature does Coates initially produce?
Poetry
Who Samori is named after
What is a Muslim resister of the French Colonizers.
The emotion Coates feels when the news anchor asks him about hope.
What is sadness.
Name of Coates son.
Samori
Who were the first white people Coates has known on a personal level?
Editors and teachers
What is the primary focus of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ letter to his son in Between the World and Me?
To explain the realities of racism and the black experience in America
What would the author agree with regarding how race is defined?
Race should have been defined as a social context.
Coates' religion
What's the name of his best friend that he loved?
Prince Jones
Coates mentions his sons life is different than his. How so?
Never grew up with black president, social networks, social media, and black women everywhere in their natural hair.
Where Coates got the title for his book.
What is from a poem by Richard Wright.
City where Coates grew up.
What is Baltimore?
How does Coates describe education in the book?
Coates discusses education as a tool of both empowerment and oppression. He suggests that the educational system often overlooks or distorts the history of Black people and their struggles.
Complete this quote... "If you're black, you were born in..."
jail
The Dream
The world of whiteness, security, and a false understanding of American history
One way boys in Coates’ s neighborhood safeguarded themselves
Through their choice of fashion, gestures, and body language