Böcker av Imani Perry

A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue?and its fascinating role in Black history and culture?from National Book Award winner Imani Perry.

Imani Perry recenters patriarchy to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifacts-ranging from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to literature and contemporary art-from the Enlightenment to the present.

Asserts that the U.S. is in a new and distinct phase of racism that is post-intentional, neither based on intentional discrimination nor drawing upon biological concepts of race

Focuses on the socially relevant aspects of Hip Hop music: its treatment of the identity of the black subject in a white society, new definitions of blackness and its commercialization.