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# The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Classic!
  

*by R***H on Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2023*

It’s brilliant every time. Unflinching in its honesty, and brave in its story telling. Still my favorite of Coates’s body of work.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Required reading
  

*by J***H on Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2016*

I found this book to be an excellent companion to Mr Coates' more recent work 
  
Between the World and Me







  
  
    . The Beautiful Struggle is a lyrical journey through West Baltimore and sheds more detailed light on some of the incidents mentioned in his second book. It shows the many paths a young person could take when faced with the results of multi-generational systemic racism and focuses on the father, the author, and an older brother. Without the social context the book would be an entertaining memoir, by the kind of writer who transports the reader into the story. Action, romance, drama, everything is here. Also a bit of Black Panther Party history, African music study, etc. It is more than just a good book though, considering where we are in this country, considering we have to be told black lives matter, considering the carte blanche granted to the police departments, it is an indispensable view of the other side.I think both of these books should be required reading for people like me, that is people who have to check the white, non-hispanic box on surveys. While reading a couple (or a hundred) books will never place you in the shoes of someone who has experienced the struggle in real life, books like this will open your/our/their eyes to what is often swept under the rug as we pretend to live in some sort of post-racial utopia. It's never going to happen if we as a society, we as a country, don't realize, acknowledge, and try to remedy all the harm caused in the black community through decades of legislation. I considered myself conscious before reading any of Mr Coates' work and now feel like I'm on step one again. There is a lot of knowledge out there.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    black privilege
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2019*

sadly, this book is overlooked when the more popular Between the World and Me is discussed.  Between the World and Me is the second installment of coates’ memoir, picking up where The Beautiful Struggle leaves off with the young coates preparing for college.  the coming of age story of the first memoir brings to mind the progression of language found in joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and the language of place, an urban idiom in coates’ case, evokes the poetry of dylan thomas—a mention of a green hill by coates may be a toast to dylan thomas’ Fern Hill and its catalogue of green things.the grittiness and toughness of inner-city culture during the 1980s as negotiated by a boy and his siblings and peers isn’t unique to coates’ early years as writer.  like several black american writers of his generation, coates acknowledges the importance of hip-hop as a literary form for making sense of black street life as it involves gangs, drugs and promiscuity as early as the pre-teen years.  what makes the story his own are his parents, especially the afro-centric teachings of coates’ father, small press publisher of black histories and former black panther. the coates’ children had the good fortune of having a father who worked at howard university at a time when children of employees received a free education and was in the home in a culture where the absent father had become pretty much the norm. as wavering as the path through the tempting streets of the inner city was, there was a lodestar, howard university, known as the black mecca.unlike joyce and his stephen daedalus or james baldwin, coates was not a self-proclaimed genius with an eye on the prize.  that the prize was there, and along the way were always guides, made the difference.hopefully, in the future, some publisher will publish both memoirs under one cover.

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