“Breathe: A Letter to My Sons is deeply cathartic and resonant for parents attempting to raise their children with intention and integrity. Imani Perry shows deep compassion for both parents and children while incisively underlining the realities of raising Black boys in a country that will inherently betray them/5(). Breathe is a gorgeously written letter that simultaneously captures a mother’s greatest hopes, and fears for her black sons. A documentation of the fight we must engage in to create space for the to claim space in a society that is becoming increasingly hostile toward people of color, Breathe is a must read/5. Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable.
Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable. However, as a mother, feminist, writer, and intellectual, Perry. "Breathe: A Letter to My Sons is deeply cathartic and resonant for parents attempting to raise their children with intention and integrity. Imani Perry shows deep compassion for both parents and children while incisively underlining the realities of raising Black boys in a country that will inherently betray them. It is a book filled with. Award-winning author Imani Perry talks with Jaimee A. Swift from Black Women Radicals about her new book Breathe: A Letter to my Sons. Breathe: A Letter to My Sons, new from Imani Perry, explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently.
“Breathe,” by the scholar Imani Perry, takes the form of a letter, by turns indignant, despairing and hopeful, to her young sons. “Breathe: A Letter to My Sons is deeply cathartic and resonant for parents attempting to raise their children with intention and integrity. Imani Perry shows deep compassion for both parents and children while incisively underlining the realities of raising Black boys in a country that will inherently betray them. In the afterword of Dr. Imani Perry’s new memoir, Breathe: A Letter to My Sons, she explains that the conception of the book stemmed from a question from her editor, Gayatri Patnaik: “Would you be interested in writing a book that is a letter to your boys?” Having already spoken about her sons on social media and fostered a habit of writing letters to them, as well as others, Perry welcomed the idea.
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