- race discrimination, African Americans, African Americans--Social conditions, African Americans--Public opinion
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.
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Grave, character-led, earnest and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 155
- Publisher
- Text Publishing, Open Books, Random House Audio
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English, German, Korean, French
- ISBN
- 9783446251076
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. His book Between The World And Me won the National Book Award in 2015. Ta-Nehisi is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2016, Coates has written Marvel’s The Black Panther comic book. He lives in New York with his wife and son. Source: http://ta-nehisicoates.com/about/
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