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Imani Perry

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September 05, 1972

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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.

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Average rating: 4.13 · 17,967 ratings · 2,964 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation 3.96 avg rating — 7,780 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People 4.31 avg rating — 1,815 ratings — published 2025 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breathe: A Letter to My Sons 4.20 avg rating — 1,626 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 4.27 avg rating — 1,525 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain 4.07 avg rating — 824 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop 4.07 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation 4.56 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) 4.18 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States 4.18 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black in Blues: How a Colour Tells the Story of My People 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Imani Perry (?)

“Living as prayer. I think that is when I am at my best. Because seeing through prayer provides a remarkable clarity. Not in the doctrinal sense, but because it is, at best, the lens of a love for every tattered inch of this earth.”
― Imani Perry, Breathe: A Letter to My Sons

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“We are running out of time, the earth is ravaged, our bodies are indefinite; Lorraine reminds us to make use of each moment.”
― Imani Perry, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

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“...While many who have debated the image of female sexuality have put "explicit" and "self-objectifying" on one side and "respectable" and "covered-up" on the other, I find this a flawed means of categorization. [...] There is a creative possibility for liberatory explicitness because it may expand the confines of what women are allowed to say and do. We just need to refer to the history of blues music—one full of raunchy, irreverent, and transgressive women artists— for examples. Yet the overwhelming prevalence of the Madonna/whore dichotomy in American culture means that any woman who uses explicit language or images in her creative expression is in danger of being symbolically cast into the role of whore regardless of what liberatory intentions she may have.”
― Imani Perry, Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop

tags: feminism, gender, gender-inequality, hip-hop, lil-kim, music, rap, stereotypes, women

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What shall we read in January, 2025? Books published after 1990.

A Miracle of Catfish, by Larry Brown

15 votes 31.3%

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, by Imani Perry

10 votes 20.8%

Cloudsplitter, by Russell Banks

10 votes 20.8%

My Darkest Prayer, by S.A. Cosby

6 votes 12.5%

Code of the Hills, by Chris Offutt

4 votes 8.3%

The Healing, by Jonathan Odell

3 votes 6.3%

48 total votes

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