Imani Perry
Biographic Data
| ID | 515524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Imani Perry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Imani |
| FAMILY NAME | Perry |
| SIGNATURE | PERRY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in the Emirates |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1850 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Word of Gratitude for this Special Issue of Exemplaria
Asthma: Strangling the Caged Bird (Something Like a Prayer)
Asthma:Strangling the Caged Bird (Something Like a Prayer) Imani Perry (bio) Yet do a marvel at this curious thing; To make a poet black and bid him sing! – Countee Cullen I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,— When he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings— I know why th…
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Nothing Personal
Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
Singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem, tells an essential yet understudied part of that story. Lift Every Voice and Sing, penned by James Weldon Johnson and composed by his brother Rosamond in 1900, was embraced as an anthem that captured the story and the aspirations of Black Americans almost immediately. This book shares the story of that …
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
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
The Flowers Are Vexed
This work, at the intersection of feminist jurisprudence, critical race theory, and African American literary studies, challenges the concept of the reasonable man which informs Anglo-American jurisprudence. The argument revolves around a politics of relation that challenges the hierarchies of membership that are an integral part to the development of the American legal order. The chapter draws on Hortense Spillers’s germinal concept of vestibula…
Lost in Translation: Language, Race and the DEA's Legitimization of Ebonics
African American Language, AAL, Ebonics, sociolingistics, education, race and racism
Black Arts and Good Law: Literary Arguments for Racial Justice in the Time of Plessy
In this article, the author demonstrates how late 19th Century writers who advocated for racial equality used the concepts of symmetry and equality, as represented in the 14th amendment, to argue that racial justice was beautiful — philosophically as well as politically, and to argue for constitutional interpretations which advanced racial justice. This is read as a species of argumentative formalism, nonetheless bearing political goals. In ident…
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. Recognizing prevailing characterizations of hip hop as a t…
Crimes without Punishment: White Neighbors' Resistance to Black Entry
Leonard S. Rubinowitz, Imani Perry, Crimes without Punishment: White Neighbors' Resistance to Black Entry, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), Vol. 92, No. 1/2 (Autumn, 2001 - Winter, 2002), pp. 335-428
Black majority: Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. Recognizing prevailing characterizations of hip hop as a t…
Black Arts and Good Law: Literary Arguments for Racial Justice in the Time of Plessy
In this article, the author demonstrates how late 19th Century writers who advocated for racial equality used the concepts of symmetry and equality, as represented in the 14th amendment, to argue that racial justice was beautiful — philosophically as well as politically, and to argue for constitutional interpretations which advanced racial justice. This is read as a species of argumentative formalism, nonetheless bearing political goals. In ident…
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Black majority: Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
Crimes without Punishment: White Neighbors' Resistance to Black Entry
Leonard S. Rubinowitz, Imani Perry, Crimes without Punishment: White Neighbors' Resistance to Black Entry, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), Vol. 92, No. 1/2 (Autumn, 2001 - Winter, 2002), pp. 335-428
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. Recognizing prevailing characterizations of hip hop as a t…
Black Arts and Good Law: Literary Arguments for Racial Justice in the Time of Plessy
In this article, the author demonstrates how late 19th Century writers who advocated for racial equality used the concepts of symmetry and equality, as represented in the 14th amendment, to argue that racial justice was beautiful — philosophically as well as politically, and to argue for constitutional interpretations which advanced racial justice. This is read as a species of argumentative formalism, nonetheless bearing political goals. In ident…
Lost in Translation: Language, Race and the DEA's Legitimization of Ebonics
African American Language, AAL, Ebonics, sociolingistics, education, race and racism
The Flowers Are Vexed
This work, at the intersection of feminist jurisprudence, critical race theory, and African American literary studies, challenges the concept of the reasonable man which informs Anglo-American jurisprudence. The argument revolves around a politics of relation that challenges the hierarchies of membership that are an integral part to the development of the American legal order. The chapter draws on Hortense Spillers’s germinal concept of vestibula…
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
Singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem, tells an essential yet understudied part of that story. Lift Every Voice and Sing, penned by James Weldon Johnson and composed by his brother Rosamond in 1900, was embraced as an anthem that captured the story and the aspirations of Black Americans almost immediately. This book shares the story of that …
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
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
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Nothing Personal
Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers
Asthma: Strangling the Caged Bird (Something Like a Prayer)
Asthma:Strangling the Caged Bird (Something Like a Prayer) Imani Perry (bio) Yet do a marvel at this curious thing; To make a poet black and bid him sing! – Countee Cullen I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,— When he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings— I know why th…
A Word of Gratitude for this Special Issue of Exemplaria
Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · united states (4 works)