Imani Perry
| Imani Perry | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 5, 1972 Birmingham, Alabama |
| Website | www |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
Yale College Harvard University Harvard Law School |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Main interests | Race, Law, African American culture |
Yale College Harvard University
Imani Perry (born 1972 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States) is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race and African American culture. She is currently the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.
Perry is the author of two books and has published numerous articles on law, cultural studies, and African American studies. She also wrote the notes and introduction to the Barnes and Nobles Classics edition of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Her work is largely influenced by the Birmingham and Frankfurt Schools, Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, and African American literary criticism. Through her scholarship, Perry has made significant contributions to the academic study of race and American hip hop; she contributed a chapter to 2014's Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic.
Perry received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in American Studies and Literature from Yale University in 1994. She subsequently earned her Ph.D. in American Civilization from Harvard University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School (from which she graduated at the age of 27). She completed a Future Law Professor's Fellowship and received her LLM from Georgetown University Law Center. She credits her childhood exposure to diverse cultures, regions, and religions with her desire to study race.
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