Details

Subject(s)

• African Americans—Maryland—Baltimore—Biography [Browse]
• African Americans—Maryland—Baltimore—Social conditions [Browse]
• Fathers and sons—Maryland—Baltimore—Biography [Browse]
• Street life—Maryland—Baltimore [Browse]
• African Americans—Maryland—Baltimore—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• African Americans—Maryland—Baltimore—Social conditions—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Fathers and sons—Maryland—Baltimore—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Street life—Maryland—Baltimore—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Baltimore (Md.)—Biography [Browse]
• Baltimore (Md.)—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi [Browse]
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Autobiographies [Browse]
• Biographies [Browse]

Contains

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Beautiful struggle. [Browse]

Summary note

• "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"-- Provided by publisher.
• As a child, Coates was seen by his father as too sensitive and lacking focus. Paul Coates was a Vietnam vet who'd been part of the Black Panthers and was dedicated to reading and publishing the history of African civilization. When it came to his sons, he was committed to raising proud Black men equipped to deal with a racist society, during a turbulent period in the collapsing city of Baltimore where they lived. Coates details with candor the challenges of dealing with his tough-love father, the influence of his mother, and the dynamics of his extended family, including his brother "Big Bill," who was on a very different path than Ta-Nehisi. -- adapted from jacket

Notes

• "Adapted for young adults" -- Title page.
• "This work is based on The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, originally published in hardcover by Spiegel & Grau, New York, in 2008."-- Publisher email.

Target audience

Ages 12 up Delacorte Press.

ISBN

• 9781984894021 ((hardcover))
• 1984894021 ((hardcover))
• 9781984894038 ((library binding))
• 198489403X ((library binding))

LCCN

2020040484

OCLC

1162793208

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