Books Details
Author : Ta-Nehisi Coates Pages : 152 pages Publisher : Spiegel
&Grau Language : eng ISBN-10 : 25489625-between-the-world-and-
me ISBN-13 : 9780812993547
Books Descriptions
?This is your country, this is your world, this is your body,
and you must find some way to live within the all of it.??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
