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Between the World and Me

by: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (2015)

$26.00

Staff Pick by comrade: CDS

In clear and impassioned writing Coates lays bare the tragic cost of institutional racism. Written in the form of a letter to his son, Coates writes movingly about his experiences of living in a black body and his developing ideas on race, learning, how to live, and love.