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Black in blues how a color tells the story of my people

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 Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless wa...

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Main Author: Perry, Imani, 1972- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPulishers, [2025]
Edition:First edition.
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Perry, Imani, > 1972-
African Americans > Social life and customs.
African Americans > History.
African Americans > Race identity.
Blue > Social aspects.
Blues (Music) > Psychological aspects.
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Table of 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.

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