Imani Perry est une chercheuse et autrice hautement qualifiée, actuellement professeure du Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality et des African and African American Studies à l'Université Harvard, avec la chaire Henry A. Morss, Jr. et Elisabeth W. Morss. Auparavant, elle a occupé des postes à l'Université de Princeton, dont celui de professeure Hughes-Rogers d'études africaines-américaines. Perry a obtenu son doctorat en études américaines à l'Université Harvard, un J.D. à la Harvard Law School, un LLM à la Georgetown University Law Center et un BA en littérature et études américaines au Yale College.
Perry a apporté une contribution significative au domaine des études africaines-américaines, avec un focus sur l'histoire de la pensée noire, de l'art et de l'imagination. Ses travaux explorent les façons dont les communautés noires ont résisté et répondu aux réalités sociales, politiques et juridiques de la domination à l'Ouest. Elle est l'auteure de plusieurs livres influents, dont "Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry", qui a reçu le Pen Bograd-Weld Award for Biography, le Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award pour la littérature, le Lambda Literary Award pour la non-fiction LGBTQ et le Shilts-Grahn Award pour la non-fiction de Publishing Triangle.
Les recherches de Perry portent également sur les questions de genre et de libération, ainsi que sur les pratiques contemporaines d'inégalité raciale. Son livre "Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation" est une œuvre de théorie critique qui examine la formation de la patriarchie moderne et son évolution au fil du temps. "More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States" offre un examen des pratiques contemporaines d'inégalité raciale qui persistent malgré les déclarations formelles d'égalité raciale.
En plus de son travail académique, Perry est également une autrice accomplie de non-fiction créative. Son livre "Breathe: A Letter to My Sons" a été finaliste du Chautauqua Prize 2020 et finaliste du NAACP Image Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. Elle a également publié largement sur des sujets allant de l'inégalité raciale à la musique hip-hop, et a été active dans divers médias. Le travail de Perry a été récompensé par de nombreux prix et distinctions, dont le National Book Award for Nonfiction 2022 pour son livre "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation" et une bourse MacArthur 2023.
Livres de non-fiction
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Prophets of the Hood
2004
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More Beautiful and More Terrible
2011
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May We Forever Stand
2018
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Vexy Thing
2018
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Looking for Lorraine
2018
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Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
2019
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South to America
2022
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Black in Blues
2025
John Hope Franklin Books
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The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South
1999
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The Color of the Law (By: Gail Williams O'Brien)
1999
3
Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 (By: Beth Tompkins Bates)
2003
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Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945
2003
5
Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta (By: Karen Ferguson)
2003
6
Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta
2003
7
Journey of Hope
2004
8
Journey of Hope (By: Kenneth C. Barnes)
2004
9
Root and Branch (By: Graham Russell Gao Hodges)
2005
10
Root and Branch
2005
11
The Black Arts Movement
2006
12
The Black Arts Movement (By: James Smethurst)
2006
13
North Carolina Slave Narratives
2006
14
North Carolina Slave Narratives (By: William L. Andrews)
2006
15
A Little Taste of Freedom (By: Emilye Crosby)
2006
16
A Little Taste of Freedom
2006
17
Battling the Plantation Mentality
2007
18
Battling the Plantation Mentality (By: Laurie B. Green)
2007
19
An African Republic (By: Marie Tyler-McGraw)
2007
20
An African Republic
2007
21
A Faithful Account of the Race
2009
22
A Faithful Account of the Race (By: Stephen G. Hall)
2009
23
Joining Places (By: Anthony E. Kaye)
2009
24
Joining Places
2009
25
Proudly We Can Be Africans (By: James H. Meriwether)
2009
26
Proudly We Can Be Africans
2009
27
A Movement Without Marches (By: Lisa Levenstein)
2009
28
A Movement Without Marches
2009
29
Emancipation's Diaspora (By: Leslie A. Schwalm)
2009
30
Emancipation's Diaspora
2009
31
African Cherokees in Indian Territory (By: Celia E. Naylor)
2009
32
African Cherokees in Indian Territory
2009
33
Examining Tuskegee (By: Susan M. Reverby)
2009
34
Examining Tuskegee
2009
35
Upbuilding Black Durham (By: Leslie Brown)
2009
36
Upbuilding Black Durham
2009
37
Self-Taught
2009
38
Self-Taught (By: Heather Andrea Williams)
2009
39
All Bound Up Together
2009
40
All Bound Up Together (By: Martha S. Jones)
2009
41
First Fruits of Freedom
2010
42
First Fruits of Freedom (By: Janette Thomas Greenwood)
2010
43
David Ruggles (By: Graham Russell Gao Hodges)
2010
44
David Ruggles
2010
45
Right to Ride (By: Blair L.M. Kelley)
2010
46
Right to Ride
2010
47
Torchbearers of Democracy (By: Chad L. Williams)
2010
48
Torchbearers of Democracy
2010
49
Living for the City
2010
50
Living for the City (By: Donna Murch)
2010
51
Way Up North in Louisville
2010
52
Way Up North in Louisville (By: Luther Adams)
2010
53
North of the Color Line (By: Sarah-Jane Mathieu)
2010
54
North of the Color Line
2010
55
The African American Roots of Modernism (By: James Smethurst)
2011
56
The African American Roots of Modernism
2011
57
Left of the Color Line (By: Bill V. Mullen)
2012
58
Left of the Color Line
2012
59
War! What Is It Good For?
2012
60
War! What Is It Good For? (By: Kimberley Phillips Boehm)
2012
61
Grassroots Garveyism
2012
62
Grassroots Garveyism (By: Mary G. Rolinson)
2012
63
Death Blow to Jim Crow
2012
64
Death Blow to Jim Crow (By: Erik S. Gellman)
2012
65
Crossroads at Clarksdale (By: Francoise Nicole Hamlin)
2012
66
Crossroads at Clarksdale
2012
67
Help Me to Find My People (By: Heather Andrea Williams)
2012
68
Help Me to Find My People
2012
69
Doctoring Freedom (By: Gretchen Long)
2012
70
Doctoring Freedom
2012
71
American Africans in Ghana (By: Kevin K. Gaines)
2012
72
American Africans in Ghana
2012
73
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens
2013
74
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens (By: Rebecca Sharpless)
2013
75
From the Bullet to the Ballot
2013
76
From the Bullet to the Ballot (By: Jakobi Williams)
2013
77
W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk
2013
78
W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk (By: Stephanie J. Shaw)
2013
79
Geographies of Liberation
2014
80
Geographies of Liberation (By: Alex Lubin)
2014
81
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (By: Farah Jasmine Griffin, Mia E. Bay)
2015
82
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
2015
83
Not Straight, Not White (By: Kevin J. Mumford)
2016
84
Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
2016
85
A Chance for Change (By: Crystal Sanders)
2016
86
A Chance for Change
2016
87
Colored Travelers (By: Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor)
2016
88
Colored Travelers
2016
89
Making Gullah
2017
90
Making Gullah (By: Melissa L. Cooper)
2017
91
Congo Love Song (By: Ira Dworkin)
2017
92
Congo Love Song
2017
93
Game of Privilege (By: Lane Demas)
2017
94
Game of Privilege
2017
95
The Promise of Patriarchy
2017
96
The Promise of Patriarchy (By: Ula Yvette Taylor)
2017
97
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (By: Kimberly M. Welch)
2018
98
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
2018
99
May We Forever Stand
2018
100
Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (By: Traci Parker)
2019
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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s
2019
102
Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal
2020
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Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal (By: Kate Dossett)
2020
104
Visualizing Equality
2020
105
Visualizing Equality (By: Aston Gonzalez)
2020
106
Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom (By: A.B. Wilkinson)
2020
107
Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom
2020
108
Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
2020
109
Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century (By: Libra R. Hilde)
2020
110
Unceasing Militant
2020
111
Unceasing Militant (By: Alison M. Parker)
2020
112
The Colored Conventions Movement (By: P. Gabrielle Foreman)
2021
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The Colored Conventions Movement
2021
114
Behold the Land
2021
115
Behold the Land (By: James Smethurst)
2021
116
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood
2021
117
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood (By: Crystal Lynn Webster)