BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME

N ATTEMPT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA, IN THE FORM OF A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR'S 14-YEAR-OLD SONA bold and beautifully w ritten exploration of America's fraught racial history and its contemporary echoes that will redefine wider understanding of race an d the roots of American identity.In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment (t he abolition of slavery), the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black b...[Llegir més]