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The Resource Between the world and me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the world and me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Summary
  • 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
  • Contains police brutality and racial discrimination.
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
152 pages
Contents
  • The eighth change : the blast
  • Epilogue : into the world
  • 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
Isbn
9781925240702
Instance
Label
Between the world and me
Title
Between the world and me
Statement of responsibility
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • 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
  • Contains police brutality and racial discrimination.
Assigning source
Book Trigger Warnings.
Awards note
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015.
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • Howard University
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • Howard University
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • Howard University
  • Howard University
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
  • United States
  • Race discrimination
  • Racism
  • Racial justice
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • White people
  • Fathers and sons
  • African Americans
  • Father and child
  • United States
  • Racism
  • Race Relations
  • African Americans
  • Father-Child Relations
  • United States
  • Blancs
  • Discrimination raciale
  • Noirs américains
  • Noirs américains
  • Pères et fils
  • États-Unis
  • Racisme
  • Justice raciale
  • Noirs américains
  • Père et enfant
  • African American
  • 15.85 history of America
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • HISTORY
  • Race discrimination
  • African-Americans
  • African-Americans
  • Whites
  • United States
  • Racial justice
  • Racism
  • African Americans
  • African Americans
  • Fathers and sons
  • Race discrimination
  • Race relations
  • Students
  • White people
  • United States
  • Afroamerikanismus
  • Ethnische Beziehungen
  • Erlebnisbericht
  • Racial discrimination
  • United States
  • United States
  • Race discrimination
  • African-Americans
  • African-Americans
  • Whites
Summary URI
https://booktriggerwarnings.com/index.php?title=Between_the_World_and_Me_by_Ta-Nehisi_Coates
Label
Between the world and me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The eighth change : the blast
  • Epilogue : into the world
  • 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
Control code
912045191
Dimensions
20 cm
Extent
152 pages
Isbn
9781925240702
Lccn
2015008120
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
Other control number
  • 9780812993547
  • 40025106946
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits
System control number
(OCoLC)912045191
Label
Between the world and me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The eighth change : the blast
  • Epilogue : into the world
  • 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
Control code
912045191
Dimensions
20 cm
Extent
152 pages
Isbn
9781925240702
Lccn
2015008120
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 655
Other control number
  • 9780812993547
  • 40025106946
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits
System control number
(OCoLC)912045191

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