Brooklyn-born author Lesley-Ann Brown decided to write her book, “Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to Her European Son” to express all of the intricacies of life and Blackness in extremely different geographical settings.
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Brown moved to Copenhagen, Denmark 18 years ago, where she had a son. The book is a collection of searingly honest and historical notes and letters to her son, who had never experienced American or Trinidadian Black life. It was also a way to get him to engage in her writing more. Her son told her he would read her work if she wrote a book. After spending her career as an essayist and educator, she took the challenge, and thus, “Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to Her European Son” came into the world, ready to give insight into the complexities of a Black international perspective.
AmNews: Your book is to your son who lives in Europe, a place very different from Brooklyn or Trinidad and Tobago. Is there a lack of conversation about racial identity and colonialism in Denmark to the point where you felt you needed to communicate the complexities of them to your child?
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