Ta-Nehisi Coates
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 2015-2016
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"On the run from the law and pursued by a dogged Nick Fury, Steve Rogers must find a way to prove his innocence. But how? By taking the fight back to the Power Elite and their insidious minions - with a little help from the Daughters of Liberty! First up, it's a trip to the border with the White Tiger to uncover secrets behind the group known only as THEM! Then, Cap and Mockingbird journey to Iowa, where THEM holds an entire town in thrall. In the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Una carta de un padre a su hijo. Una profunda reflexión sobre la actual realidad social de Estados Unidos que recoge grandes temas universales como la discriminación, la desigualdad y el activismo necesario para combatirlas"--Amazon.
Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the...
Author
Series
Black Panther (2016) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a violent superhuman terrorist group known as The People spark a violent uprising in Wakanda, T'Challa fights to unite his citizens and show them how to adapt in order for Wakanda to survive.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thomas Fisher was raised on the South Side of Chicago and even as a kid understood how close death could feel-he came from a family of pioneering doctors who believed in staying in the community, but on those streets he saw just how vulnerable Black bodies could be. Determined to follow his family's legacy, Fisher studied public health at Dartmouth and Harvard, then returned to the University of Chicago Medical School. As soon as he graduated, he...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"As Zenzi and the people poison Wakanda's citizens against the Black Panther, a cabal of nation-breakers is assembled. And Ayo and Aneka, the Midnight Angels, are courted by Tetu to help raise their land to new glory! His allies dwindling, T'Challa must rely on his elite secret police, the Hatut Zeraze, and fellow Avenger Eden Fesi, a.k.a. Manifold! And with T'Challa's back truly against the wall, he even calls in some old friends to lend a hand:...
Author
Series
Black Panther (2016) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Where next for the Black Panther? Long ago - before Black Panthers, before Wakanda, before time itself - there were only the Orishas! The pantheon of gods and goddesses from which the world as we know it was manifested: Thoth. Pt ah. Mujaji. Kokou. And Bast, the Panther Goddess. But now, when Wakanda faces turmoil they are silent. Where have all the gods of Wakanda gone? T'Challa means to find out...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The end of an era for the Black Panther! Ta-Nehisi Coates' landmark run reaches a tipping point as the ruthless N'Jadaka comes for Earth! To protect our planet from Emperor N'Jadaka's violent invasion, the nation of Wakanda must go to war against its own future -- and its first, best and only hope lies in the Panther! But where is he? Even the gods are beginning to despair -- but Bast the panther god will not abandon her avatar, even if she has to...
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