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Imani Perry says the color blue tells the story of her people, representing both oppression and resilience, sorrow, and beauty.

In her new book, Black in Blues, Perry explores the significance of the color in black history and culture,

from the indigo trade to the blues music tradition, and stitches together histories that connect the color to spirituality,

community, resistance, and the complexities of identity.

Perry joins us after this news. I'm I'm I'm

The Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. For Imani Perry, the color blue is woven into the black experience, into black life, and it performs a dual role. Blue, she writes, has been a word for melancholy in English for centuries. Blue is lovely, too. Blue is contrapuntal. It is itself and its opposite, sweet and bitter. Perry's examination of

blue, as historical, as personal, and as art, opens up a deeper understanding of what it means to be

black in today's world. Her book is called Black in Blues, how a color tells the story of my people.

Imani Perry is Professor of African American Studies and gender at Harvard and at 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Professor Perry, welcome to Forum.

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