Up next its booktv is monthly in Depth Program with author and Princeton University professor imani perry. Our books on race and africanamerican history include prophets of the hood, may we forever stand, and the recently published breathe a letter to my sons. Its a letter. Its a series of letters to my son, but of course, its also a letter to the larger world, both about, you know, the reality of the terror and anxiety and worries that comes along with being a parent of black children, and particularly black boys in the United States at this moment, but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and selfregard. Much of which, i think, one finds a lessons for in an extraordinary tradition that we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Well, so, i actually have written them letters privately for years, but my editor, at beacon press said, is this something youd be interested in doing . In large pa
Professor imani perry, what is the structure of your newest book, brief . Guest well, there are three sections. Fear, fly and fortune. It is a letter, a series of letters to my son but its also a letter to the larger world. Both about the reality of the terror and anxiety and the worry that comes along with being the parent about black children in particular at this moment but its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy and excellence and self regard, much of which i think one finds the lesson for an extraordinary tradition which we have to draw from. Host where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . Guest i have written some letters privately for years and my editor at beacon press said is this something youd be interested in doing in large part because ado talk about my children all the time and i write posts about them on social media and initially, you know, i think what we both had in mind with something that was probably bit more
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There are three sections, fear, fly, and fortune. Its an epistolary work. Its a series of letters to my sons but of course its also a letter to the larger world. Both about the reality of the terror and anxiety and worry of being a parent to black children come in particularly black boys at this moment. Its also filled with my desire for them to lead a life of beauty and joy. And excellence. And self regard. Much of which i think one finds the lessons for an extraordinary tradition we have to draw from. Where did you come up with the idea to write your sons a letter . I actually have written them letters privately for years but my editor at beacon press, set is this something youd be interested in doing. Initially i think what we both had in mind was something that was probably aba story for them and the world. It became something more sober. I reached into the archives that i had in my mind of the works that for me did that and try to have a conversation both with the past and the pre