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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...

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Main Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale Cengage Learning, 2016.
Edition: Large print edition.
Subjects:
Coates, Ta-Nehisi > Childhood and youth.
Howard University > Students > Biography.
Race discrimination > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Public opinion.
Whites > United States > Attitudes.
Fathers and sons.
United States > Race relations.
Biographies.
Large print books.
Table of 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.

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