Black in blues : how a color tells the story of my people / Imani Perry.

Author/creator Perry, Imani, 1972- author.
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPulishers, [2025]
Description243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects

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.
Abstract "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.
LCCN 2024037118
ISBN9780062977397 hardcover
ISBN0062977393 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks E185.86 .P476 2025 ✔ Available Place Hold