Between the world and me
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015].
Format
Book
ISBN
9780812993547, 0812993543, 1925240703, 9781925240702
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Lexile measure
1090L
Rating
1090L
Status
Elysian Area Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015].
Language
English
ISBN
9780812993547, 0812993543, 1925240703, 9781925240702
Lexile measure
1090
Notes
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.
Target Audience
1090L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,7.6,7,182043.
Awards
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015
Subjects
LC Subjects
African Americans -- Public opinion.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Autobiographies.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi -- Childhood and youth.
Fathers and sons.
Howard University -- Students -- Biography.
Race discrimination -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
White people -- United States -- Attitudes.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Autobiographies.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi -- Childhood and youth.
Fathers and sons.
Howard University -- Students -- Biography.
Race discrimination -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
White people -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Coates, T. (2015). Between the world and me . Spiegel & Grau.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Coates, Ta-Nehisi. 2015. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
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