About is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a the book really began with a conversation in a taxicab about 10 years ago when my friend tosha treadway who some people think of as poet laureate of the us but at the time was not yet. We knew each other through the poetry world and 10 years ago we were at a professional conference and not tosha and i are old friends but she on this one night decided to challenge me because i grew up in Forsyth County georgia which is known all over the state as a quote, white county but this is not something i knew in new york, had any familiarity with but natosha is an africanamerican woman who happened to go to the university of Georgia College a little way down the road from bursae and this meant when she heard me offhandedly mentioned that i came from this state , she stopped and really turned to me and sai
Up to the War Memorial Auditorium upstairs and the book signing, i encourage you to continue discussion with both authors once you get there so we will get started. Patrick phillips is an associate professor of english and a poet as well, previous book he produced, eulogy for a broken mechanic was a National Book award finalist. Todays book we are talking about is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome patrick phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a conversation, questions and comments but a little bit about the book blood at the root a racial cleansing in america and how i came to write it and a little about the story. The book began with the conversation in a taxicab ten years ago when my friend who some people may know, poet laureate of the us but at the time she was not yet. Ten years ago we were at a professional conference and natosha and i were old friends but one night she decided
Two distinguished authors to our panel, doctor Patrick Phillips and doctor jason ward. We will have presentations by both Patrick Phillips and jason ward and after both panelists are finished with their presentations we would like to open it up to discussion. Following discussion, we will go up to the War Memorial Auditorium upstairs and the book signing, i encourage you to continue discussion with both authors once you get there so we will get started. Patrick phillips is an associate professor of english and a poet as well, previous book he produced, eulogy for a broken mechanic was a National Book award finalist. Todays book we are talking about is blood at the root a racial cleansing in america. Please welcome Patrick Phillips. Thank you so much. For the southern festival of books, thank you for coming. This will con turn into a conversation, questions and comments but a little bit about the book blood at the root a racial cleansing in america and how i came to write it and a littl
Decider. To adjudicate competing worldviews and privatization, deregulation and austerity these are the buzzwords that have become common sense. If we live in that kind of state we have the other thing going on. My book has that assumption but in each case to give us a bigger story what it means to be nobody. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Be change you are watching booktv on cspan2. Live coverage of the southern festival of books in downtown nashville was the last soccer panel of the day the look at violence in africanamericans throughout history. Offers Patrick Phillips and jason ward. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the southern festival of books and this particular session. Standing against oppression, racial historical violence. It is our pleasure to welcome two distinguished authors to our panel, doctor Patrick Phillips and doctor jason ward. We will have presentations by both Patrick Phillips and jason ward and after both panelists are finished
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