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Between the world and me

Title
Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Author
Coates, Ta-Nehisi.
Publication
  • New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
152 pages : illustrations, portraits; 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. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, 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. In his trademark style -- a mix of lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, essayistic argument, and reportage -- Coates provides readers a thrillingly illuminating new framework for understanding race: its history, our contemporary dilemma, and where we go from here"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Bildungsromans.
  • Biographies.
  • Biography.
Awards (note)
  • National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015
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.
Call Number
Sc C 15-128
ISBN
  • 9780812993547
  • 0812993543
LCCN
  • 2015008120
  • 40025106946
  • 9780812993547
OCLC
912045191
Author
Coates, Ta-Nehisi.
Title
Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Publisher
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
African Americans
Americans
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Awards
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015
Local Subject
Black author.
Other Standard Identifier
40025106946
9780812993547 52400
Research Call Number
Sc C 15-128
JFD 15-4352
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