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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - NATIONAL BOK AWARD WINER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOKS OF THE DECADE - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - ONE OF OPRAH'S BOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH - NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as required reading, a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race (Rolling Stone)
NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOKS OF THE DECADE BY CN - NAMED ONE OF PASTE'S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - O: The Oprah Magazine - The Washington Post - People - Entertainment Weekly - Vogue - Los Angeles Times - San Francisco Chronicle - Chicago Tribune - New York - Newsday - Library Journal - Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new 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 Ta-Nehisi 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. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American writer, journalist, and educator. Coates is a National Correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about cultural, social and political issues, particularly as regards African-Americans. Coates has worked for The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, and Time. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, O, and other publications. In 2008 he published a memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood. His second book, Between the World and Me, was released in July 2015. It was nominated for a 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction.He was the recipient of a Genius Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 2015
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| ISBN 13 | 9781925240702 |
| ISBN 10 | 1925240703 |
| Title | Between the World and Me |
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Text Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-07-16 |
| Number of pages | 166 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2015 (United States), Winner of Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction 2015 (United States), Winner of PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay 2016 (United States), Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2015 (United States), Short-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2016 (United States) |
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