Host Cat Brooks talks to Imani Perry to talk about her book “
Imani Perry is the National Book Award–winning 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.
In Black in Blues, Imani Perry uses the world’s favorite color as a springboard for a riveting emotional, cultural, and spiritual 
journey-an examination of race and Blackness that transcends politics or ideology. The book traces both the significance of the color blue and its parallels to Blackness from their earliest roots to their many embodiments of contemporary culture, drawing deeply from her own life as well as art and history: The dyed indigo cloths of West Africa that were traded for human life in the 16th century. the mixture of awe and aversion in the old-fashioned characterization of dark-skinned people as “Blue Black.” The fundamentally American art form of blues music, sitting at the crossroads of pain and pleasure. The blue flowers Perry plants to honor a loved one gone too soon. It is an illumination of how the color Blue has been associated with mourning, spiritual strength, and forces of freedom and oppression.
Our Resistance in Residence Artist this week is director, teacher and solo-performer Kenny Yun.
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