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Description

1. 152 pages : illustrations, portraits; 20 cm

Summary

1. "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."--
2. Contains police brutality and racial discrimination.

Series statement

1. Business book summary

Uniform title

1. Business book summary.

Subject

1. Coates, Ta-Nehisi > Childhood and youth
2. Coates, Ta-Nehisi
3. Coates, Ta-Nehisi > Enfance et jeunesse
4. Coates, Ta-Nehisi
5. Howard University > Students > Biography
6. Howard University
7. Howard University > Étudiants > Biographies
8. Howard University
9. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
10. Race discrimination > United States
11. Racism against Black people > United States
12. Racial justice > United States
13. African Americans > Social conditions
14. African Americans > Public opinion
15. White people > United States > Attitudes
16. Fathers and sons
17. African Americans
18. Father and child
19. Racism > United States
20. Racism
21. Race Relations
22. Black or African American
23. Father-Child Relations
24. Personnes blanches > États-Unis > Attitudes
25. Discrimination raciale > États-Unis
26. Noirs américains > Conditions sociales
27. Noirs américains > Opinion publique
28. Pères et fils
29. Racisme > États-Unis
30. Justice raciale > États-Unis
31. Noirs américains
32. Père et enfant
33. Racisme à l'égard des personnes noires > États-Unis
34. African American
35. 15.85 history of America
36. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs
37. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations
38. HISTORY > United States > General
39. Race discrimination > United States
40. African-Americans > Social conditions. > United States
41. African-Americans > Public opinion. > United States
42. Whites > Attitudes. > United States
43. Childhood and youth of a person
44. Racial justice
45. African Americans > Public opinion
46. Race discrimination
47. Race relations
48. Students
49. White people > Attitudes
50. Afroamerikanismus
51. Ethnische Beziehungen
52. Erlebnisbericht
53. Racial discrimination
54. African-Americans > United States > Social conditions
55. African-Americans > United States > Public opinion
56. Whites > Attitudes
57. United States > Race relations
58. United States
59. États-Unis > Relations raciales
60. United States > Race relations
61. United States

Genre/Form

1. Biographies
2. Autobiography
3. Biography
4. autobiographies (literary works)
5. Autobiographies
6. Bildungsromans.
7. Biographies.
8. Autobiographies.

Contents

1. Prologue : the talk -- The changes -- The second change : Malcolm and the body -- The third change : Mecca and the death of mythology -- 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 -- The seventh change : eyes open to the world -- The eighth change : the blast -- Epilogue : into the world.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain

Awards (note)

1. National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015.