02121cam a2200325 i 4500 296106010 TxAuBib 20160301120000.0 150914s2016||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2015035694 9781410485847 lg. print 1410485846 lg. print eng rda TxAuBib rda Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the world and me [LARGE PRINT] / by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2016] 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier aTa-Nehisi Coates offers a 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? Between the World and Me is Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son -- and readers -- the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder. 20160301. Whites United States Attitudes. African Americans Social conditions. African Americans Public opinion. Race discrimination United States. United States Race relations. Large print books.