Imani Perry, a professor of African American studies at Princeton, first appeared in print at age 3 in the Birmingham (Alabama) News in a photo of her and her parents at a protest against police brutality. She has published widely on topics ranging from racial inequality to hip-hop and is active across various media. She earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a bachelor's degree from Yale University. (from http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/ar...)
Books
Black in Blues
How a Color Tells the Story of My People
2025
More Beautiful and More Terrible
The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States
2011
The Lonely Stories
2022
Breathe
A Letter to My Sons
2019
South to America
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
2022
Vexy Thing
On Gender and Liberation
2018
Prophets of the Hood
Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
2004
Looking for Lorraine
The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
2018
May We Forever Stand
A History of the Black National Anthem
2018
A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain
2023
