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Black in blues : how a color tells the story of my people / Imani Perry.
Van Pelt Library E185.86 .P476 2025
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Imani, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perry, Imani, 1972-.
- Perry, Imani.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- Blue--Social aspects.
- Blue.
- Blues (Music)--Psychological aspects.
- Blues (Music).
- Physical Description:
- 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPulishers, [2025]
- Summary:
- "A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue -- and its fascinating role in Black history and culture -- from National Book Award winner Imani Perry"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Our blue interior
- Writing in color
- Blue goes down
- The land where the blues began
- True blue
- Antigua, South Carolina, Montserrat
- Saint-Domingue and Haiti
- A sign which will not be cut off
- Jaybirds sing
- Blue gums and blue-black
- Hoodoo blue
- The blue note
- Blue pots
- Lonely blue
- Blue-eyed negroes
- Blue-back speller
- Egyptian blue in America
- Blue flag, gold star
- The blues
- Eating the other
- Janie's blues
- Bentonia
- Blueprints
- Citizens
- Montgomery, Newport, Cape Verde, Accra
- Afro blue
- The boys in blue
- Overall movement
- Holy repetition
- Black saint
- Old blue eyes, new blacks
- Heaven's there for those...
- From Indigo child to Whitney's blues
- Seeing the seventh son
- God's will undone, the creek did rise.
- ISBN:
- 9780062977397
- 0062977393
- OCLC:
- 1474965597
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