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Author Coates, Ta-Nehisi, author.

Title Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Publication Info. New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations
eth African Americans lcdgt
nat Americans lcdgt
Series Book club kit
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed April 20, 2017).
Contents Prologue : the talk -- Part 1. Between the world and me -- The changes -- The second change : Malcolm and the body -- The third change : Mecca and the death of mythology -- Part 2. The sooty details of the scene -- 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 -- Part 3. A grassy clearing -- The seventh change : eyes open to the world -- The eighth change : the blast -- Epilogue : into the world.
Summary In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new 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? "I know that this book is addressed to the author's son, and by obvious analogy to all boys and young men of color as they pass, inexorably, into harm's way. I hope that I will be forgiven, then, for feeling that Coates was speaking to me, too, one father to another, teaching me that real courage is the courage to be vulnerable."--Michael Chabon "A work of rare beauty ... a love letter written in a moral emergency, one that Coates exposes with the precision of an autopsy and the force of an exorcism."--Slate. From the Hardcover edition.
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Awards National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015
Subject Coates, Ta-Nehisi -- Childhood and youth.
Howard University -- Students -- Biography.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
Race discrimination -- United States.
African Americans -- Public opinion.
White people -- United States -- Attitudes.
Fathers and sons.
United States -- Race relations.
United States -- History -- 1865-
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. (OCoLC)fst01779045
Howard University. (OCoLC)fst00533680
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
African Americans -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst00799665
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Fathers and sons. (OCoLC)fst00921899
Race discrimination. (OCoLC)fst01086465
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
Students. (OCoLC)fst01136041
White people -- Attitudes. (OCoLC)fst01174817
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
United States -- Race relations.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi.
Howard University.
Racism. (DNLM)D063505
Race Relations. (DNLM)D011822
Black or African American. (DNLM)D001741
Father-Child Relations. (DNLM)D005219
United States. (DNLM)D014481
Chronological Term Since 1865
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Autobiographies.
Bildungsromans.
Other Form: Print version: Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the world and me. New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015] 9780812993547 (DLC) 2015008120 (OCoLC)912045191
ISBN 9780679645986 (electronic book)
0679645985 (electronic book)
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