Places of refuge to Afro-Americans mapped in the book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehesi Coates

Abstract

In the aftermath of Black Lives Matter, a protest movement that arose following several deaths of young Afro-Americans at the hands of the police, Ta-Nehisi Coates, an Afro-American poet and journalist, published in 2015 the book Between the World and Me. In this work, the author maps out several places of refuge for the Afro-American urban communities, relating them with the presence of racism in the American society. My aim is to critically map out those places of refuge represented in Between the World and Me, always keeping in mind that the author writes from an individual point of view and his experience cannot be extrapolated to the whole of the Afro-American community.