Perry took on misconceptions about the South (and won the National Book Award) with “South to America.” In “Black in Blues” ...
Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's ...
Imani Perry’s impressionistic “Black in Blues” finds shades of meaning — beautiful and ugly — in art, artifacts, music, ...
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Author Imani Perry Shares Her Top Five Recent ObsessionsHow a Color Tells the Story of My People, published by Harper Collins this month. Below, she discusses Black excellence and ...
Imani Perry’s essay collection “Black in Blues” threads together the cultures and lore of the Black diaspora into an ...
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National Book Award-winning author of South to America, as well as eight other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss ...
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How blues (the colors and the sounds) tell the story of African AmericaImani Perry finds room to improvise, to think on the page in what feels like real time. Her work walks a line between ...
Public intellectual Imani Perry will be in conversation with actor Andre Holland for a special event at the Birmingham Museum ...
Harvard professor and Birmingham, Alabama, native Imani Perry won the 2022 National Book Award for nonfiction for “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation.
The scholar recommends four inventive books that offer instruction on how to create meaning, beauty, and intimacy amid ...
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