Between the world and me

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Label

Between the world and me

Statement of responsibility

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Creator

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Subject

• African Americans -- Social conditions
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• HISTORY / United States / General
• Race discrimination -- United States
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
• United States -- Race relations
• African Americans -- Public opinion
• Whites -- United States -- Attitudes

Language

eng

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"--

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Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.800973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction