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Between the world and me

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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 ... In [this book], 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"--

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  • 77 of 80 copies available at Westchester Library System. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at New Rochelle Public Library System.

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New Rochelle Public Library 305.8 C (Text)
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Record details

  • ISBN: 9780812993547
  • ISBN: 0812993543
  • ISBN: 9781925240702
  • ISBN: 9780399590658
  • Physical Description: 152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015]

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Subject: United States > Race relations.
Race discrimination > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Public opinion.
Whites > United States > Attitudes.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY / United States / General.


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