Between the world and me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike press large print popular and narrative nonfiction; Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781410485847
Subjects: Race relations; Howard University; Students; Fathers and sons; Whites; Public opinion; Attitudes; Race discrimination; Social conditions; African Americans; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: This edition omits the table of contents found in the original, regular print version.

National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015