Description 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 unjust world.
Connect with her on Twitter (@imaniperry)..
She lives outside Philadelphia with her two sons, Freeman Diallo Perry Rabb and Issa Garner Rabb.
She is the author of several books, including Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.
She is a native of Birmingham, Alabama, and spent much of her youth in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Chicago.
About the Author Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she also teaches in the Programs in Law and Public Affairs, and in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
With original art for the cover by Ekua Holmes, Breathe offers a broader meditation on race, gender, and the meaning of a life well lived and is also an unforgettable lesson in Black resistance and resilience.
She shares vulnerabilities and insight from her own life and from encounters in places as varied as the West Side of Chicago
Birmingham, Alabama; and New England prep schools.
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Perry draws upon the ideas of figures such as James Baldwin, W.
However, as a mother, feminist, writer, and intellectual, Perry offers an unfettered expression of love--finding beauty and possibility in life--and she exhorts her children and their peers to find the courage to chart their own paths and find steady footing and inspiration in Black tradition.
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.
Description 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 unjust world
