Trey Graves’s Reviews > Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People – The National Book Award Winner's Cultural Meditation on Race, Blues, and Identity > Status Update

"May I/we haunt the past to change the present and claim the future. Amin."

I ran out tabs annotating this. A lyrical marvel.
Imani Perry tells the story of the cultural significance to the color blue: a feeling, at once something divine and more inconceivable than black. This is used to tell a history of people. Beauty gets questions in terms of who crafts it and who is left to perfect and preserve it. Stunning.