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Between the World and Me

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Between the World and Me

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’ attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son.

Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Publication Date: July 14, 2015
  • Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
  • Hardcover: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
  • ISBN-10: 0812993543
  • ISBN-13: 9780812993547