Imani Perry

Black in Blues (eBook, ePUB)

How a Color Tells the Story of My People

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062977427
• Artikelnr.: 68994450

Autorenporträt

Imani Perry is the National Book Awardwinning 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.

Rezensionen

"This prismatic volume finds the National Book Award-winning Princeton professor meditating on skin color and the indigo trade, Louis Armstrong's music and Toni Morrison's writing, in short, lyrical chapters." - New York Times

"An affective investigation into the many roles of blueness in Black life. . . it is full of archival gems - but it is also a lyrical [work]. . . . What unites its disparate contents is a mood, which is just as valuable as an argument. It is a contrapuntal document, musical and moving, and no less rich for its tumbling abundance." - Washington Post

"As Imani Perry illuminates in a new book that swirls and flicks like an actual marble, [blue is] inextricable from the Black race. . . . Reading Black in Blues is like putting on a pair of those special Kodak 3-D viewfinders that make objects and issues leap suddenly into focus. . . . Its chapters are tide pools: quite short, but deep and teeming. . . . It will have you looking afresh even at your corner mailbox." - New York Times Book Review

"One of those books that slips the boundaries . . . . 'Ask the right questions,' [Perry] insists, 'and you'll move toward virtue and truth.' Words to live by, especially in a nation where a large swatch of the population seems intent on disavowing the better angels of our nature."
- Los Angeles Times

"Touching on a range of historical, artistic, musical, and literary references-from the color's significance in Yoruba cosmology to the blue candles used in hoodoo rituals to the 'tremor' of the "blue note'-Perry illuminates how the color has been variously associated with mourning, spiritual strength, and forces of freedom and oppression." - New Yorker, "Briefly Noted"

"It is clear from reading Imani Perry's Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People why she is adept at chronicling the history of the Black diaspora: She weaves stories like a village griot or a grandparent sitting on the porch recalling the past. . . . From Africans dressed in blue as if it were ceremonial garb to a tiny house in Alabama and a cloth of remembrance for a loved one, black and blue are brilliant and so is Black in Blues." - Christian Science Monitor

"Vast, multifaceted and enchanting. . . . Black in Blues also gave me a renewed sense of direction, a clarity of purpose. Here it is: Hold fast to beauty. It has everything you need. It has everything we need." - Minnesota Star Tribune

"A meditative and healing introspection on Black history presented through a fresh and innovative lens. . . . Innovative, melancholic, and expansive, Black in Blues achieves its goal to bring Black history to life." - Atlanta Journal Constitution

"National Book Award winner Perry offers surprising revelations about the connection between the color blue and Black identity as she explores myth and literature, art and music, folklore and film. . . . An innovative cultural history." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"An impressionistic cultural history of the African diaspora through its connections to the color blue, from the Congo to Haiti, Jamaica, and the American South, in music, dance, folklore, art, and literature. . . . Packed with cultural references to Nina Simone, Zora Neale Hurston, Miles Davis, and Picasso's African-inspired Blue Period, this is a fascinating and creative work of popular anthropology . . . Original and affecting." - Booklist (starred review)

"A lyrical meditation on 'the mystery of blue and its alchemy in the lives of Black folk.' . . . In direct and intimate prose, Perry synthesizes an impressive range of research into a sinewy, pulsing narrative that positions the past as an active, living force in the present. Readers will be swept up." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Imani Perry's work is brilliant and lyrical as ever! How clearly she assesses the history of Black and Blue, knitting them together with language both precise and haunting. This book is a great gift, in that it allowed me to see the world anew with Perry's clear-eyed insight. How Perry allows me to understand my Blue better, too!" - Jesmyn Ward, author of Let Us Descend and Sing, Unburied, Sing

"Black in Blues is a stunningly original journey in search of the historical origins of the very soul of African American life and culture. Along the way, Perry shows, with telling detail and in engaging prose, how 'The Blues' became Black, and how Black people became 'Blues People.'" - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"With Black in Blues, Imani Perry establishes herself as the most important interpreter of Black life in our time. With intellectual skill, an artist's eye, and the beauty of her pen, she powerfully tells the story of our people through the color blue. This is an extraordinary book." - Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., author of Begin Again and We Are the Leaders

"Imani Perry's Black in Blues is a masterful convergence of literature, history, and culture-where color itself becomes the field for reflection and revelation. The sheer span of Perry's thinking, like the sweep of a great sky, stirs the most breathtaking of elusive emotions: awe." - Evan Osnos, author of Wildland and Age of Ambition