Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Non-Fiction
- Editorial Seix Barral
- ISBN: 9786070739583
Synopsis
Una carta de un padre a su hijo. Una profunda reflexión sobre la actual realidad social de Estados Unidos que recoge grandes temas universales como la discriminación, la desigualdad y el activismo necesario para combatirlas. En la lista de los diez mejores libros del año 2015 de The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Vulture, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, Kirkus Reviews, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Oprah.com, Harper's Bazaar, Newsday, The Economist, Forbes, Marie Claire, Glamour, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Denver Post, The Seattle Times, Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, Barnes & Noble, O Magazine, The Root, NYDailyNews.com, The Baltimore Sun, NPR's Book Concierge y Flavorwire. Una reflexión de lo que significa ser afroamericano en Estados Unidos y la perdida de derechos civiles de este segmento de la población.
This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it."In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new 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 Ta-Nehisi 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. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
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