Between the World and Me Audiobook (Free)

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Hailed by Toni Morrison as “needed reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the main essayist in a generation and a writer who transformed the national political conversation on the subject of contest” (Rolling Stone)

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In a profound function that pivots from the largest issues about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of the 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 “competition,” a falsehood that problems people but falls most heavily on the systems of black women and men-bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of most proportion. What is it truly like to inhabit a black body and find ways to live within it? And how can we all truthfully reckon with this fraught background and free of charge ourselves from its burden?

Between your World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions within a notice to his adolescent son. Coates stocks along with his son-and readers-the tale of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory encounters, from Howard College or university to Civil Battle battlefields, through the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his child years home to the living spaces of mothers whose children’s lives had been used as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between your Globe and Me clearly illuminates days gone by, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent eyesight for a way forward.