This guide will help you think about some of the cultural-historical references you've seen in Ta-Nehisi Coates' book, Between the World and Me.
Relevant Reading
Ferguson, Roderick A. "Ode to the Black Bouqinistes: Bibliomaniacs of the Black Radical Tradition." CLA Journal, vol. 60 no.4, 2017, pp. 399-413. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26557002. Accessed 14 Nov 2022.
Ford, Na'Imah. "Pedagogy of Empowerment: Approaches to Teaching Ta-Nehishi Coates and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie." CLA Journal, vol. 60 no.4, 2017, pp. 479-499. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26557007. Accessed 14 Nov 2022.
"Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful," The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke with Ezra Klein in June 2020 to discuss the state of things--namely, police abolition, the presidency, and how 2020 differs from the summer of 1968. You can read an edited transcript of the discussion here.
In the graphic above, we see just a few of the cultural-historical references we've seen in Between the World and Me so far.