Ta-Nehisi Coates


Between the World and Me

Coates, Ta-Nehisi | BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780525510307

Boken utforskar den komplexa relationen mellan ras och identitet i Amerika genom personliga berättelser och historiska reflektioner.

  • En personlig berättelse om ras och identitet.

  • Utforskar Amerikas historia genom en unik lins.

  • Utgiven som pocket, 2017.

Typ av bok:
Ny
Pris:
REA-pris158 kr

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Random House US
ISBN: 9780525510307

Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2017-09-05

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In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratificiation 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, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me offers a powerful new framework for understanding America's history and current crisis, and a transcendent vision for a way forward.

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Vanliga frågor om Between the World and Me av Ta-Nehisi Coates

Boken utforskar frågor kring ras och identitet i Amerika genom ett personligt brev till författarens son, där han delar sina erfarenheter av att växa upp som afroamerikan i en rasistisk och segregerad nation.

Centrala teman inkluderar den amerikanska historien och rasism, sociala grupper och medborgerliga rättigheter, samt hur dessa frågor formar den amerikanska identiteten.

Boken är en ny pocketutgåva som publicerades av Random House US den 5 september 2017.

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