Between the world and me

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The work Between the world and me represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

Between the world and me

Statement of responsibility

Ta-nehisi Coates

Creator

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Author

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Narrator

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Subject

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

Genre

• Audiobooks

Language

eng

Summary

• 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
• "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." -- Publisher's description

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Dewey number

305.800973

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

LC call number

E185.615

LC item number

.C6335 2015ab

Literary text for sound recordings

• history
• memoirs

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by the author

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable