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Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal
literary exploration of America's racial history by "the most important
essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political
conversation about race" (Rolling Stone)
NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN -
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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.
