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1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations |
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Prologue : the talk -- PART 1. BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME. The changes -- The second change : Malcolm and the body -- The third change : Mecca and the death of mythology -- PART 2. THE SOOTY DETAILS OF THE SCENE. The fourth change : New York and the death of mercy -- The fifth change : Gettysburg and the long war -- The sixth change : Chicago and the streets -- PART 3. A GRASSY CLEARING. The seventh change : eyes open to the world -- The eighth change : the blast -- Epilogue : into the world. |
| 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. 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? "I know that this book is addressed to the author's son, and by obvious analogy to all boys and young men of color as they pass, inexorably, into harm's way. I hope that I will be forgiven, then, for feeling that Coates was speaking to me, too, one father to another, teaching me that real courage is the courage to be vulnerable."--Michael Chabon "A work of rare beauty ... a love letter written in a moral emergency, one that Coates exposes with the precision of an autopsy and the force of an exorcism."--Slate. From the Hardcover edition. |
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1090 Lexile. |
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1090L Lexile |
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Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.6 7 182043 |
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Accelerated Reader UG 7.6 7 182043 |
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The author presents a history of racial discrimination in the United States and a narrative of his own personal experiences of contemporary race relations, offering possible resolutions for the future. |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Coates, Ta-Nehisi -- Childhood and youth.
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Coates, Ta-Nehisi. |
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Howard University -- Students -- Biography.
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Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld. |
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Howard University. |
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Since 1865 |
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
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Racism -- United States -- History.
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Race discrimination -- United States.
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African Americans -- Public opinion.
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Whites -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Fathers and sons.
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Afroamerikanismus. |
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Ethnische Beziehungen. |
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Erlebnisbericht. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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African Americans -- Public opinion. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
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Fathers and sons. |
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Race discrimination. |
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Race relations. |
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Racism. |
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Students. |
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Whites -- Attitudes. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States -- History -- 1865-
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United States. |
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Autobiographies.
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Biography.
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History.
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Downloadable e-Books.
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Electronic books. |
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the world and me New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015] 9780812993547 (DLC) 2015008120 (OCoLC)912045191 |
| ISBN |
9780679645986 : $65.00 |
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0679645985 : $65.00 |
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