Between the world and me /
Coates, Ta-Nehisi.
Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates. - First edition. - 152 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015.
Online version Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the world and me
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.
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.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015.
9780812993547 (hardcover)
BRO-copy20150723-147 BRO-cust20150803-054 BRO-cust20160211-084
2015008120
Race discrimination--United States.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Whites--Attitudes.--United States
African Americans--Public opinion.
United States--Race relations.
305.800973 COA / 013038
Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates. - First edition. - 152 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015.
Online version Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the world and me
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.
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.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015.
9780812993547 (hardcover)
BRO-copy20150723-147 BRO-cust20150803-054 BRO-cust20160211-084
2015008120
Race discrimination--United States.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Whites--Attitudes.--United States
African Americans--Public opinion.
United States--Race relations.
305.800973 COA / 013038