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Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
$17.90
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me

Intense racial history exploration in personal narrative.

"Between the World and Me" is a riveting dive into the American fabric, offering a lens on racial issues that is as deeply personal as it is historically expansive. Ta-Nehisi Coates's eloquence and honesty in addressing his son, and by extension all readers, makes the book not just an educational experience, but an emotional journey as well. It's unflinchingly raw and serves to enlighten those grappling with the complexities of America's racial legacy.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2016)
  • National Book Award for Nonfiction (2015)
  • ALA Alex Award (2016)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)
  • PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2016)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2015)
  • NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2016)
  • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2015)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
  • NAACP Image Award for Biography/Autobiography and Nomination for Debut Author (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates
$17.90
ISBN: 9780812993547
Authors: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Date of Publication: 2015-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Creative Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Sociology, Politics
Related Topics: Biography, History, Memoir, Essays, Biography Memoir, Social Justice, Sociology, Politics, American History, Race
Goodreads rating: 4.4
(rated by 329864 readers)

Description

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.
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Intense racial history exploration in personal narrative.

"Between the World and Me" is a riveting dive into the American fabric, offering a lens on racial issues that is as deeply personal as it is historically expansive. Ta-Nehisi Coates's eloquence and honesty in addressing his son, and by extension all readers, makes the book not just an educational experience, but an emotional journey as well. It's unflinchingly raw and serves to enlighten those grappling with the complexities of America's racial legacy.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2016)
  • National Book Award for Nonfiction (2015)
  • ALA Alex Award (2016)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)
  • PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2016)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2015)
  • NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2016)
  • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2015)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
  • NAACP Image Award for Biography/Autobiography and Nomination for Debut Author (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.