Between the World and Me

Resumen del libro

For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, hes sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him'most urgently, the mystery of race, an abstract concept that put the safety of him and the people he loved the most, including his son, in constant jeopardy. Here, Coates takes readers along on his journey through Americas 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, a journey to Chicagos South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century Americas 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police. In his trademark style'a mix of lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, essayistic argument, and reportage'Coates provides readers a thrillingly illuminating new framework for understanding race: its history, our contemporary dilemma, and where we go from here.

Biografía del autor

Ta-Nehisi Coates (Baltimore, 1975) es editor en la revista The Atlantic, donde escribe artículos sobre cultura, política y temas sociales. Su labor periodística ha sido premiada en varias ocasiones. Anteriormente, había trabajado en The Village Voice, Washington City Paper y Time, y había colaborado con The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly y O Magazine entre otras publicaciones. Es autor del libro de memorias The Beautiful Struggle y de Entre el mundo y yo (Seix Barral, 2017), ganador del National Book Award 2015 de no ficción y en la lista de más vendidos del New York Times desde su publicación, además de ser considerado uno de los diez mejores libros del año por las publicaciones más prestigiosas.