Between the World and Me
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0812993543
ISBN 13
9780812993547
Category
Race and Ethnicity
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Publication Year
2015
Publisher
Pages
176
Description
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.
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