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Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Title
Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Author
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Publication
  • New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
152 pages : illustrations, portraits; 20 cm
Summary
  • "Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son -- and readers -- the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder."--
  • Contains police brutality and racial discrimination.
Series Statement
Business book summary
Uniform Title
Business book summary.
Subject
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi > Childhood and youth
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi > Enfance et jeunesse
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • Howard University > Students > Biography
  • Howard University
  • Howard University > Étudiants > Biographies
  • Howard University
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • Race discrimination > United States
  • Racism against Black people > United States
  • Racial justice > United States
  • African Americans > Social conditions
  • African Americans > Public opinion
  • White people > United States > Attitudes
  • Fathers and sons
  • African Americans
  • Father and child
  • Racism > United States
  • Racism
  • Race Relations
  • Black or African American
  • Father-Child Relations
  • Personnes blanches > États-Unis > Attitudes
  • Discrimination raciale > États-Unis
  • Noirs américains > Conditions sociales
  • Noirs américains > Opinion publique
  • Pères et fils
  • Racisme > États-Unis
  • Justice raciale > États-Unis
  • Noirs américains
  • Père et enfant
  • Racisme à l'égard des personnes noires > États-Unis
  • African American
  • 15.85 history of America
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations
  • HISTORY > United States > General
  • Race discrimination > United States
  • African-Americans > Social conditions. > United States
  • African-Americans > Public opinion. > United States
  • Whites > Attitudes. > United States
  • Childhood and youth of a person
  • Racial justice
  • African Americans > Public opinion
  • Race discrimination
  • Race relations
  • Students
  • White people > Attitudes
  • Afroamerikanismus
  • Ethnische Beziehungen
  • Erlebnisbericht
  • Racial discrimination
  • African-Americans > United States > Social conditions
  • African-Americans > United States > Public opinion
  • Whites > Attitudes
  • United States > Race relations
  • United States
  • États-Unis > Relations raciales
  • United States > Race relations
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • Autobiography
  • Biography
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Autobiographies
  • Bildungsromans.
  • Biographies.
  • Autobiographies.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Awards (note)
  • National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015.
Contents
Prologue : the talk -- The changes -- The second change : Malcolm and the body -- The third change : Mecca and the death of mythology -- The fourth change : New York and the death of mercy -- The fifth change : Gettysburg and the long war -- The sixth change : Chicago and the streets -- The seventh change : eyes open to the world -- The eighth change : the blast -- Epilogue : into the world.
ISBN
  • 9780812993547
  • 0812993543
  • 1925240703
  • 9781925240702
  • 9780679645986 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0679645985 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2015008120
  • 9780812993547
  • 40025106946
OCLC
  • 912045191
  • SCSB-11362000
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library