The beautiful struggle : a memoir / Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Publication details: London : Verso, 2016.Description: 227 pages : 1 map, 1 genealogical table ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781784785345
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Journalists
- Journalists -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography
- African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography
- African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions
- Fathers and sons -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography
- Street life -- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Maryland -- Baltimore
- Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography
- Ethnic relations
- Men
- United States
- Fathers
- Child rearing
- Autobiography
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 975.2 COA | Available | 064779 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 through inner-city adolescence--and through 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, spacy and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. This book follows their divergent paths, and their father's steadfast efforts to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction.--From publisher description.