Crossword Between the World and Me Stella Tang

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Across
  1. 1. However you call it, the result was our _____ before the criminal forces of the world.
  2. 5. (noun) - the fact of surpassing all others; superiority
  3. 8. Coates writes that the mother's anger (from her son being murdered) was away from revenge and toward _____.
  4. 9. In Between the World and Me, Coates gives his own _____ of the experience of Black people in America.
  5. 11. Black people unfairly imprisoned and killed showed how poor the _____ and government systems were.
  6. 12. Slavery was the opposite of _____; it was a system built on cruelty and injustice, not moral righteousness.
  7. 14. "And whereas most other historically black schools were scattered like forts in the great wilderness of the old Confederacy, Howard was in Washington, D.C.—Chocolate City— and thus in _____ to both federal power and black power." (40)
  8. 15. The question is unanswerable, which is not to say _____. (12)
  9. 24. What the American "Dreamers" assert over Black bodies.
  10. 25. Coates explains how his neighborhood in West Baltimore as a kid was full of fear that was covered up through activities like cursing and smoking because of the _____ Americans have done to them, causing that fear.
  11. 27. Coates critiques how society tends to _____ Black pain—giving honor or value while ignoring true justice.
  12. 28. The dispersion of Black people from Africa to many parts of the world (mainly America).
  13. 29. The treasures of African _____ were lost in enslavement.
  14. 30. Describes the persistent force, like the gravity, enslaving Black bodies, in the American galaxy.
  15. 32. "In this way, racism is _____ as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and one is left to deplore the Middle Passage or the Trail of Tears the way one deplores an earthquake, a tornado, or any other phenomenon" (7)
  16. 34. During Coates's time, the prison-industrial complex was a _____ business that profited from incarcerating Black bodies.
  17. 35. Coates's writing shows that what is _____ (seems to be but may not be) can hide complex truths.
  18. 37. In France, Coates reflects and realizes he was part of America’s racial equation, even if it wasn't a role he __________ (liked).
  19. 38. In West Broadway, Coates felt a _____ rush, fascinated by the world of elegance, freedom, and posssibility he observes but doesn't fully belong to.
  20. 39. Coates critiques how _____ systems like policing, racism and schools often fail Black and mixed communities at the city level.
  21. 41. Coates felt his body was _____ by history and policy, trapped within a tight space.
Down
  1. 2. Coates says how each time a police officer engages Blacks, injury, maiming, and even death is possible.
  2. 3. Coates critiques the _____ that justifies systemic racism and the oppression of Black bodies in America.
  3. 4. In the days after, I watched the ridiculous _____ of flags, the machismo of firemen, the overwrought slogans. (87)
  4. 6. A powerful realization or moment of truth, like when Coates grasps the fragility of the Black body in America.
  5. 7. Coates's book inveighs on the terrible racism towards and disembodiment of black people.
  6. 10. The girl with long dreadlocks was the first one who healed and protected and protected Coates's _____.
  7. 13. Coates loved Malcom X because he made race clear, never mystical or _____, because his ideas were based on real, physical facts.
  8. 16. Coates writes about how pain and fear can _____ into wisdom and understanding over time.
  9. 17. To be _____ means to embody or represent something in a physical form—like the Black body showing history and resistance.
  10. 18. (noun) - a right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class
  11. 19. Coates and a black man he didn't know were able to have a private _____ that could only exist between two strangers of a tribe called Black, separated from the outer society.
  12. 20. In America, Coates explains the invisible _____ formed from the chains of racism.
  13. 21. Coates disliked the neighborhood of his _____ younger self—a place with terrible schools and racism.
  14. 22. (adj) - of the highest quality or degree
  15. 23. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the _____. (8)
  16. 24. (noun) - a person who holds opinions that are at variance with those commonly or officially held
  17. 26. (noun) - political (originally communist) propaganda, especially in art or literature
  18. 27. (adj) - relating to the internal organs in the main cavities of the body, e.g. the intestines
  19. 31. The threat to Black bodies in Coates's America is _____; it's everywhere and impossible to escape.
  20. 33. The _____ and fights between Black people and white people were rooted in history and struggle.
  21. 36. Endured or carried over time—like the pain and struggle passed down in Black history.
  22. 40. Coates's letter and the voice of others serve as a _____ to Black resilience and survival.