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Bible. N.T. Matthew 28.18; Mark 14.18; Luke 23.36-49; John 20.19-23. The two foremost worshippers appear to have beads hanging from their hands

The resurrected Christ appears with a flag before the apostles; God spreads his hands above. Woodcut.

Jan Baptista van Helmont and Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont. Etching by C. de Man, 1648.

1 print : engraving, over etching ; image 25.5 x 18.6 cm

Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his back, escaping from the sack of Troy, accompanied by Creusa and Ascanius. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1654.

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 21 x 15 cm

A father reprimanding his son, and a mother reprimanding her daughter. Coloured etching, 1801.

An angel holds a fiery urn below the billowing cherubs

1 print : etching with line engraving ; platemark 49.8 x 29.3 cm

Jesus blesses Joseph as he dies. Engraving by C. Fantetti after C. Maratta.

Fathers and sons / by E. B. Castle.

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 bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son -- and readers -- the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder.

152 pages : black and white illustrations ; 20 cm

Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

1 drawing : watercolour, with pencil ; image 22.7 x 16.5 cm

An old blind man holding a child walks guided by his stick and dog. Coloured watercolour drawing by R.R.S.

1 print : etching ; platemark 36.8 x 26 cm

The death of Joseph. Etching by L. Mattioli, c. 1720, after M.A. Franceschini.

1 print : lithograph, printed in black, green and white ; sheet 56.8 x 43.5 cm

A father puts his arm around his son who reads a book while a mother holding a cup comforts her daughter; an AIDS prevention advertisement aimed at families for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. March 1994.

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The resurrected Christ appears with a flag before the apostles; God spreads his hands above. Woodcut.

Jan Baptista van Helmont and Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont. Etching by C. de Man, 1648.

Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his back, escaping from the sack of Troy, accompanied by Creusa and Ascanius. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1654.

A father reprimanding his son, and a mother reprimanding her daughter. Coloured etching, 1801.

Jesus blesses Joseph as he dies. Engraving by C. Fantetti after C. Maratta.

Fathers and sons / by E. B. Castle.

Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

An old blind man holding a child walks guided by his stick and dog. Coloured watercolour drawing by R.R.S.

The death of Joseph. Etching by L. Mattioli, c. 1720, after M.A. Franceschini.

A father puts his arm around his son who reads a book while a mother holding a cup comforts her daughter; an AIDS prevention advertisement aimed at families for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. March 1994.

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The resurrected Christ appears with a flag before the apostles; God spreads his hands above. Woodcut.

Jan Baptista van Helmont and Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont. Etching by C. de Man, 1648.

Aeneas carrying his father Anchises on his back, escaping from the sack of Troy, accompanied by Creusa and Ascanius. Engraving by P. Lombard, 1654.

A father reprimanding his son, and a mother reprimanding her daughter. Coloured etching, 1801.

Jesus blesses Joseph as he dies. Engraving by C. Fantetti after C. Maratta.

Fathers and sons / by E. B. Castle.

Between the world and me / Ta-Nehisi Coates.

An old blind man holding a child walks guided by his stick and dog. Coloured watercolour drawing by R.R.S.

The death of Joseph. Etching by L. Mattioli, c. 1720, after M.A. Franceschini.

A father puts his arm around his son who reads a book while a mother holding a cup comforts her daughter; an AIDS prevention advertisement aimed at families for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. March 1994.

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