Imani PerryRecommended Books
American interdisciplinary scholar
Imani Perry (born September 5, 1972) is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African American culture. 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, a Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and a columnist for The Atlantic.
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“My favorite books defining/critiquing Neoliberalism: Dardot & Laval?s The New Way of the World, Arundhati Roy?s Capitalism A Ghost Story, Wendy Brown?s Undoing the Demos. There are many more but those are clear & beautifully argued.”
“More important books: Barbara Ransby's "Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement" Jeanne Theoharis "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" and Danielle McGuire "At the Dark End of the Street"”
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“For me it was the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, I would go back and forth between the book and the movie over and over. I can still hear her voice at the water fountain at the end...”
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