Between the world and me [LP]
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 segr...
| Main Author: | Coates, Ta-Nehisi (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Waterville, Maine :
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale Cengage Learning,
2016.
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| Edition: | Large print edition. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: |
This edition omits the table of contents found in the original, regular print version. |
| Physical Description: |
337 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Awards: |
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015 |
| ISBN: |
9781410485847 1410485846 |
| Author Notes: |
(Bowker Author Biography) |