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도대체 미국이란 나라에 흑인은 어떤 존재인가?
우리가 익히 알고 있듯, 미국은 노예해방을 통해 흑인들에게도 자유와 평등권을 제공하고 ‘지금껏 지상에 존재했던 가장 위대하고 고귀한 국가’라고 자칭하고 있다. 하지만 역설적으로 인종차별은 20세기 중반을 넘어서까지 계속되었고, 오늘날 소위 레드라이닝을 통해 흑인들을 게토(흑인 빈민 지구)로 몰아넣고 있다.
2015~2016년, 미국 사회에 인종 문제를 향한 도발적인 주장을 던지며 커다란 논쟁을 불러왔던 책 『세상과 나 사이』가 출간되었다. 이 책의 저자 타네하시 코츠는 아프리카계 미국인으로 오늘날 미국에서 벌어지는 흑인 살해를 단순히 몇몇 인종주의자의 돌발 행동이나 KKK단과 같은 광기 어린 집단들의 문제가 아닌, 노예제를 통해 부를 일군 미국의 ‘유산과 전통’, 바로 미국의 역사에서 찾고 있다.
애초에 미국에서 흑인은 한 번도 ‘국민’이었던 적이 없었다는 저자의 도발적인 주장은 흑인 중산 계급 출신의 프린스를 범죄 용의자로 오인한 사복 차림의 경찰이 그를 총으로 쏘며, 프린스가 사망했던 사고를 근거로 들며 미국 사회는 ‘계급’보다 ‘인종’이 더 큰 힘을 발휘하고 있음을 역설한다.
북소믈리에 한마디!
책의 제목은 린치 현상을 묘사한 리처드 라이트의 동명 시에서 차용한 것이다. 저자가 자란 노스웨스트볼티모어는 백인 사회와 첨예하게 분리된 흑인들의 섬 같은 곳 이었지만, 그 반대편에는 ‘바라는 거라고는 인기 많은 여자 친구를 얻는 게 전부인 백인 소년들이 살고 있는’ 교외의 세상이 있었다. 그런 점에서 이 책의 제목은 미국이 제시하는 자유, 평등, 부 같은 이상과 아프리카계 미국인이 처한 현실 사이의 심각한 괴리를 암시한다.
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Between the World and Me
2015, Spiegel & Grau
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Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States. Coates recapitulates American history and explains to his son the "racist violence that has been woven into American culture." Coates draws from an abridged, autobiographical account of his youth in Baltimore, detailing the ways in which institutions like the school, the police, and even "the streets" discipline, endanger, and threaten to disembody black men and women. The work takes structural and thematic inspiration from James Baldwin's 1963 epistolary book The Fire Next Time. Unlike Baldwin, Coates sees white supremacy as an indestructible force, one that Black Americans will never evade or erase, but will always struggle against.
The novelist Toni Morrison wrote that Coates filled an intellectual gap in succession to James Baldwin. Editors of The New York Times and The New Yorker described the book as exceptional. The book won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body.
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