Imani Perry

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Get Lit: Imani Perry on 'Black in Blues'

Friday, March 07, 2025

Imani Perry discusses her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, which looks at Black American history by examining the significance of the color blue. Pe...

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Imani Perry's New Book 'Black in Blues' (A Get Lit Preview)

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

National Book Award-winning author Imani Perry previews our February Get Lit with All Of It book club event. We are spending the month reading her latest, 'Black in Blues.'

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Get Lit Preview: Imani Perry on 'Black in Blues'

Monday, February 03, 2025

National Book Award-winning author Imani Perry previews our February Get Lit with All Of It book club event. We are spending the month reading her latest, 'Black in Blues.'

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Affirmative Action is About More Than Acceptance Letters

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Everyone’s talking about affirmative action at elite universities. But they educate fewer than 5 percent of students seeking advanced degrees. So why should the other 95 percent care?

Reflecting on the Shootings of Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis

Friday, April 21, 2023

Reflections on the shootings of Ralph Yarl and Kaylin Gillis.

Imani Perry's Journey Across the American South

Friday, February 04, 2022

Imani Perry talks about her new book on the American South.

Can America Be Redeemed?

Monday, July 05, 2021

Eddie Glaude and Imani Perry consider the question through the work of James Baldwin and Richard Wright. Plus: How our country could enter a period of “post-traumatic growth.”

The South’s Changing Political Landscape

Monday, July 02, 2018

Imani Perry a professor of African-American Studies at Princeton, examines the shifting political landscape of the South. 

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Transcending Racial Inequality

Monday, April 11, 2011

Imani Perry, professor at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University and author of the new book More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States , discusses persistent racial inequality in the U.S. and the way forward.

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