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Between the world and me
Edition
Large print edition.
Publication Information
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
Physical Description
337 pages (large print) ; 23 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.