EAN: 9780812993547

BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME - TA-NEHISI COATES GEB...

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? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi 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. Beautifully woven from personal narrative 
reimagined history  and fresh  emotionally charged reportage  Between the World and Me clearly
illuminates the past  bracingly confronts our present  and offers a transcendent vision for a
way forward.

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