Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States. Coates recapitulates American …
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Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States. Coates recapitulates American history and explains to his son the "racist violence that has been woven into American culture." Coates draws from an abridged, autobiographical account of his youth in Baltimore, detailing the ways in which institutions like the school, the police, and even "the streets" discipline, endanger, and threaten to disembody black men and women. The work takes structural and thematic inspiration from James Baldwin's 1963 epistolary book The Fire Next Time. Unlike Baldwin, Coates sees white supremacy as an indestructible force, one that Black Americans will never evade or erase, but will always struggle against.
The novelist Toni Morrison wrote that Coates filled an intellectual gap in succession to James Baldwin. Editors of The New York Times and The New Yorker described the book as exceptional. The book won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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Between the World and Me
Hardcover, 152 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2015 by Spiegel & Grau.
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- 978-0-8129-9354-7Copied ISBN!
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- 923007023
Between the World and Me
Hardcover, 152 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2015 by Spiegel & Grau.
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- OCLC Number:
- 923007023
Between the World and Me
Digital Audio
English language
Published July 14, 2015 by Books on Tape / Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group.
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- OCLC Number:
- 936121320
Between the World and Me
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English language
Published Aug. 8, 2015 by Spiegel & Grau.
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- 1001747252
Between the World and Me
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English language
Published July 14, 2015 by Random House Audio.
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- 913888540
Between the World and Me
eBook
English language
Published Aug. 8, 2015 by Text Publishing.
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- OCLC Number:
- 927241142
세상과 나 사이
Hardcover
Korean language
Published Aug. 8, 2016 by 열린책들.
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- 978-89-329-1778-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 975812147
Zwischen mir und der Welt
eBook
German language
Published Aug. 8, 2016 by Hanser Berlin.
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- 978-3-446-25195-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 934183955
Une colère noire
eBook
French language
Published Aug. 8, 2016 by Autrement.
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- 978-2-7467-4345-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 968195814
Zwischen mir und der Welt
Hardcover
German language
Published Aug. 8, 2016 by Hanser Berlin.
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- 978-3-446-25107-6Copied ISBN!
Between the world and me
337 pages
English language
Published Aug. 8, 2016
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- 978-1-4104-8584-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 921240451
Between the World and Me
Published Sept. 8, 2015 by Random House Audio.
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