Look for more booktv on line error write us on facebook. Next in this booknotes from 1999, Randall Kenan discusses his book walking on water black american lives at the turn of the twentyfirst century. In preparing the book mr. Sapi travel the country for period of six years and interviewed nearly 200 africanamericans. This encore presentation is about an hour. Cspan Randall Kenan, author of walking on water, whats your book about . Guest well, its a travel narrative about what it means to be black in america. I sort of set out to travel all over north america, traveling on a theme. And the theme was to ask the question what does it mean at the end of the Twentieth Century to be black . Cspan wheres this cover picture taken . Guest i dont know thats one of the reasons we chose it, it sort of looks like everytown, america. Cspan when did you start to travel . Guest i started in 1991, beginning in new england and traveling north and west, going to places like alaska, coming back around d
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