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JEF - Audiobook Month (June)
JEF - Black Voices for Black History (Adult)
MCL - National Book Award
NPM - Outstanding Books for the College Bound (YALSA) 2019
JEF - Black Voices for Black History (Adult)
MCL - National Book Award
NPM - Outstanding Books for the College Bound (YALSA) 2019
Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth...
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Description
Ta-Nehisi Coates' debut is an infectious, reflective memoir-a lyrical saga of surviving the crack-stricken streets of Baltimore in the '80s. Son of Vietnam vet and black awareness advocate Paul Coates-a poor man who set out to publish lost classics of black history-Ta- Nehisi drifts toward salvation at Howard University, while his ominous brother Big Bill finds his own rhythm hustling.
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