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Between the world and me [margin project book]

Call Number

  • MARGIN 305.8 C6528 TEEN (CEN, OSH)

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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"--

Notes

This book is part of KPL's Margin Project for grades 6-12. Please write your thoughts and comments in the margins. You can even add a drawing. Keep it clean and friendly!

Contents

  • 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.

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