by Ta-nehisi Coates

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 About Our Long, Tangled History Of Race, Whether Through His Myth-busting Professors At Howard University, A Trip To A Civil War Battlefield With A Rogue Historian, A Journey To Chicago's South Side To Visit Aging Survivors Of 20th Century America's 'long War On Black People,' Or A Visit With The Mother Of A Beloved Friend Who Was Shot Down By The Police-- Prologue : The Talk -- Part 1. Between The World And Me. The Changes -- The Second Change : Malcolm And The Body -- The Third Change : Mecca And The Death Of Mythology -- Part 2. The Sooty Details Of The Scene. The Fourth Change : New York And The Death Of Mercy -- The Fifth Change : Gettysburg And The Long War -- The Sixth Change : Chicago And The Streets -- Part 3. A Grassy Clearing. The Seventh Change : Eyes Open To The World -- The Eighth Change : The Blast -- Epilogue : Into The World. Ta-nehisi Coates.