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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.
With Black women scholars such as Angela Davis, Dr. Imani Perry and activist Brittany … ‘Stamped From the Beginning’ Examines Racism and White Supremacy in Documentary From Roger Ross ...
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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 ...
Woo attended the public elementary school King Open School in Cambridge, Massachusetts alongside Imani Perry. [2] She graduated with a BA in the Humanities from Yale College in 1994. [3] [4] [5] She received her PhD in English from Columbia University in 2004. [6] [4] [5]
On Wednesday, Gunty and Perry won awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively, while honorees Art Spiegelman and Tracie D. Hall forcefully defended free speech. L.A.'s Tess Gunty, Imani Perry ...