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Between the world and me

Call Numbers

  • 305.8 C6528 (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)
  • 305.8 C6528 TEEN (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]

Physical Description

152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Summary

"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police"--

Contents

  • Prologue : the talk
  • PART 1. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME. The changes
  • The second change : Malcolm and the body
  • The third change : Mecca and the death of mythology
  • PART 2. THE SOOTY DETAILS OF THE SCENE. 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
  • PART 3. A GRASSY CLEARING. The seventh change : eyes open to the world
  • The eighth change : the blast
  • Epilogue : into the world.

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