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Imani Perry

About

Imani Perry is the author of seven books. The most recent is the New York Times bestselling title South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Perry is professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

Articles

Issue 116, Spring 2022

For Daughters of Southern Sundays

So many of us, daughters of the African diaspora, live with fragments of ancestral mothers.

By Imani Perry
Issue 119, Winter 2022

The Country Idiom of Hip-Hop

The country idiom of hip-hop was there since the beginning and remained a minor note, perhaps a grace note, for a long while. You can see it if you search hip-hop lyrics websites for words like...

By Imani Perry