Imani Perry

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2025 Participant · Non-Fiction · History

Imani Perry
Imani Perry

Imani is the National Book Award–winning author of South to America, as well as seven other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Perry lives between Philadelphia and Cambridge with her two sons.

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Book Title(s)

  • Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

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