Imani Perry

2 months ago | thedailynewsonline.com | Michael Kleber-Diggs |Imani Perry

Like the color blue, Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues” is vast, multifaceted and enchanting. Perry’s book, also like the hue, defies categorization. Her exploration of blue is presented in 35 tight, radiant chapters that read like a blend of memoir and history. kAm%96J’C6 >@C6 E92? >6>@:C 2?5 9:DE@CJ[ E9@F89] q642FD6 E96 A2DE :D AC@=@8F6[ 2D H6 <?@H D@ H6== E96D6 52JD[ H92E’D 9:DE@C:42= 2=D@ 6?5D FA 36:?8 A6CD@?2=] x? “q=24< :?

2 months ago | thelcn.com | Michael Kleber-Diggs |Imani Perry

Like the color blue, Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues” is vast, multifaceted and enchanting. Perry’s book, also like the hue, defies categorization. Her exploration of blue is presented in 35 tight, radiant chapters that read like a blend of memoir and history. kAm%96J’C6 >@C6 E92? >6>@:C 2?5 9:DE@CJ[ E9@F89] q642FD6 E96 A2DE :D AC@=@8F6[ 2D H6 <?@H D@ H6== E96D6 52JD[ H92E’D 9:DE@C:42= 2=D@ 6?5D FA 36:?8 A6CD@?2=] x? “q=24< :?

2 months ago | bostonherald.com | Michael Kleber-Diggs |Imani Perry

By Michael Kleber-Diggs, The Minnesota Star TribuneLike the color blue, Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues” is vast, multifaceted and enchanting. Perry’s book, also like the hue, defies categorization. Her exploration of blue is presented in 35 tight, radiant chapters that read like a blend of memoir and history. They’re more than memoir and history, though. Because the past is prologue, as we know so well these days, what’s historical also ends up being personal.

2 months ago | barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Imani Perry |Juan Williams |Zeinab Badawi

What to Read Next: Black History Month 2025February is the perfect time to take a beat and celebrate authors, old, new, and rediscovered, who exemplify the greatest of Black literature. From revered authors like Zora Neale Hurston and James Baldwin to powerhouse voices we love like Imani Perry and Zeinab Badawi, these picks are guaranteed to help you celebrate Black literature all year round. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.

Oct 11, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Imani Perry |Alok Vaid-Menon |Ta-Nehisi Coates

Artist and activist Vaid-Menon demonstrates how the normativity of the gender binary represses creativity and inflicts physical and emotional violence. The author, whose parents emigrated from India, writes about how enforcement of the gender binary begins before birth and affects people in all stages of life, with people of color being especially vulnerable due to Western conceptions of gender as binary.