Between the World and Me

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Intimate dialogue on race, identity, and survival.

Between the World and Me is essential reading for anyone looking to dive deep into the American racial psyche through a personal lens. Coates' narrative feels like a father's tender, yet urgent, conversation with his son, lending a profound intimacy to the exploration of systemic racism. The poignancy comes from real-life stories that could mirror a friend's, or even your own, shaping a bridge of empathy and understanding.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2016)
  • National Book Award for Nonfiction (2015)
  • ALA Alex Award (2016)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)
  • PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2016)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2015)
  • NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2016)
  • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2015)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
  • NAACP Image Award for Biography/Autobiography and Nomination for Debut Author (2016)
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Between the World and Me

Regular price RM48.28 MYR
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ISBN: 9781925240702
Authors: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher: Text Publishing
Date of Publication: 2015-07-16
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.4
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Description

In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country’s foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, locked up and killed in the streets. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can America reckon with its fraught racial history? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’ attempt to answer those questions, presented in the form of a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his own awakening to the truth about history and race through a series of revelatory experiences: immersion in nationalist mythology as a child; engagement with history, poetry and love at Howard University; travels to Civil War battlefields and the South Side of Chicago; a journey to France that reorients his sense of the world; and pilgrimages to the homes of mothers whose children’s lives have been taken as American plunder. Taken together, these stories map a winding path towards a kind of liberation—a journey from fear and confusion, to a full and honest understanding of the world as it is. Masterfully woven from lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh,
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Intimate dialogue on race, identity, and survival.

Between the World and Me is essential reading for anyone looking to dive deep into the American racial psyche through a personal lens. Coates' narrative feels like a father's tender, yet urgent, conversation with his son, lending a profound intimacy to the exploration of systemic racism. The poignancy comes from real-life stories that could mirror a friend's, or even your own, shaping a bridge of empathy and understanding.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2016)
  • National Book Award for Nonfiction (2015)
  • ALA Alex Award (2016)
  • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)
  • PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2016)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2015)
  • NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2016)
  • Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2015)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
  • NAACP Image Award for Biography/Autobiography and Nomination for Debut Author (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.