TY - BOOK AU - Coates,Ta-Nehisi TI - Between the world and me SN - 9780812993547 AV - E185.615 .C6335 2015 U1 - 305.800973 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New York PB - Spiegel & Grau KW - Race discrimination KW - United States KW - African-Americans KW - Social conditions KW - Public opinion KW - Whites KW - Attitudes KW - sears KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations KW - HISTORY / United States / General KW - Race relations N1 - School Library Journal starred, February 2016; Library Journal Starred, August 2015; Booklist starred, August 2015; Kirkus Starred, July 2015; New York Times, September 2015; Publishers Weekly Annex, June 2015; School Library Journal starred; Library Journal Starred; Booklist starred; Adult; Follett Library Resources; Adult; 1090L; Lexile N2 - "For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? ... Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police"--Provided by publisher UR - 9780812993547.jpg ER -