The beautiful struggle : a memoir

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Label

The beautiful struggle : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Title variation

beautiful struggle

Title variation remainder

a father, two sons and an unlikely road to manhood

Creator

• trueCoates, Ta-Nehisi

Subject

• trueAfrican American authors -- Baltimore, Maryland -- Biography
• trueAfrican American parenting -- Personal narratives
• trueAfrican American young men -- Family relationships
• trueAfrican Americans -- Baltimore, Maryland -- Social conditions
• trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
• African Americans -- Maryland | Baltimore -- Biography
• African Americans -- Maryland | Baltimore -- Social conditions
• trueAutobiography
• Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography
• trueBaltimore, Maryland
• trueBaltimore, Maryland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• trueFathers and sons -- Baltimore, Maryland -- Biography
• Fathers and sons -- Maryland | Baltimore -- Biography
• trueGrowing up -- Baltimore, Maryland -- Personal narratives
• trueGrowing up -- Personal narratives
• trueStreet life -- Baltimore, Maryland
• Street life -- Maryland | Baltimore
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Genre

• trueBiography
• truePersonal narratives

Language

eng

Summary

Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack, and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free. Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. The Beautiful Struggle follows their divergent paths through this turbulent period, and their father's steadfast efforts assisted by mothers, teachers, and a body of myths, histories, and rituals conjured from the past to meet the needs of a troubled present to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

BKL

Dewey number

975.26

Illustrations

• maps
• genealogical tables

Index

no index present

LC call number

F189.B153

LC item number

C63 2009

Literary form

non fiction