Between the world and me /
By: Coates, Ta-Nehisi [author.].
Publisher: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia : The Text Publishing Company, 2015Description: 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781925240702; 9781925240702:; 1925240703.Subject(s): Coates, Ta-Nehisi -- Childhood and youth | Howard University -- Students -- Biography | Since 1865 | African American journalists -- Biography | African Americans -- Social conditions | Race discrimination -- United States | Racism -- United States -- History | African Americans -- United States -- Social conditions | African Americans -- United States -- Public opinion | African Americans -- Civil rights -- History | Whites -- United States -- Attitudes | Fathers and sons | United States -- Race relations | United States -- Race relations -- History | United States -- History -- 1865-DDC classification: 305.896073Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment (the abolition of slavery), the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one. It is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country's foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war and, today, still disproportionately threatened, locked up and killed in the streets. How can America reckon with its fraught racial history? This book is Ta-Nehisi Coates' attempt to answer that question.
Originally published: New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015].
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2015