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Imani Perry (born September 5, 1972) is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African American culture. She is currently 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, a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and a ...
Whitman died of cancer on July 21, 2014, at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago; he was 71 years old. [1] He is survived by his wife, Nancy Kurshan and their two children, Rosa Kurshan-Emmer and Michael Kurshan-Emmer, along with his adoptive daughter, professor and writer Imani Perry (from his marriage to Theresa Perry).
Perry discusses various historical figures from the South during her travels. While in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, she documents the history of Shields Green, one of the raiders who took part in John Brown's raid on Harper Ferry, a failed attempt by abolitionists to seize control of the Harper's Ferry Armory and foment a nationwide slave rebellion.
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, Imani Perry (Jan. 28) Black in Blues is an intimate meditation on the color blue and its connection to Black history and culture.
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Imani Perry (born 1972), American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African-American culture; Imani Sanga (born 1972), Tanzanian musicologist; Imani Coppola (born 1978), American singer-songwriter and violinist; Imani Patterson (born 1985), former African-American actor; Imani Barbarin (born 1990), American disability activist
Tess Gunty’s “The Rabbit Hutch,” a sweeping debut novel set in a low-income housing community in Indiana, has won the National Book Award for fiction. The nonfiction prize went to Imani ...