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Between the World and me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Synopsis "Between the World and me"
AN ATTEMPT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA, IN THE FORM OF A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR'S 14-YEAR-OLD SONA bold and beautifully written exploration of America's fraught racial history and its contemporary echoes that will redefine wider understanding of race and the roots of American identity.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 countrys 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 sonand readersthe 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 childrens lives have been taken as American plunder. Taken together, these stories map a winding path towards a kind of liberationa 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, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me offers a powerful new framework for understanding Americas history and current crisis, and a transcendent vision for a way forward.
(1975 Baltimore, USA) Es editor en la revista The Atlantic, donde escribe artículos sobre cultura, política y temas sociales. Su labor periodística ha sido premiada en varias ocasiones. Anteriormente, había trabajado en The Village Voice, Washington City Paper y Time, y había colaborado con The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly y O Magazine entre otras publicaciones. Es autor del libro de memorias The Beautiful Struggle y de Entre el mundo y yo, ganador del National Book Award 2015 de no ficción y en la lista de más vendidos del New York Times desde su publicación, además de ser considerado «uno de los diez mejores libros del año» por las publicaciones más prestigiosas.
