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How a Color Tells the Story of My People
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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, USA Today, People, AARP, Today.com, BookRiot, Bustle, LitHub, BookPage, Our Culture, and Vulture
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 ways. Blue skies and blue water offer hope for that which lies beyond the current conditions. But blue is also the color of deep melancholy and heartache, echoing Louis Armstrong’s question, “What did I do to be so Black and blue?” In this book, celebrated author Imani Perry uses the world’s favorite color as a springboard for a riveting emotional, cultural, and spiritual journey—an examination of race and Blackness that transcends politics or ideology.
Perry traces both blue and Blackness from their earliest roots to their many embodiments of contemporary culture, drawing deeply from her own life as well as art and history: The dyed indigo cloths of West Africa that were traded for human life in the 16th century. The mixture of awe and aversion in the old-fashioned characterization of dark-skinned people as “Blue Black.” The fundamentally American art form of blues music, sitting at the crossroads of pain and pleasure. The blue flowers Perry plants to honor a loved one gone too soon.
Poignant, spellbinding, and utterly original, Black in Blues is a brilliant new work that could only have come from the mind of one of our greatest writers and thinkers. Attuned to the harrowing and the sublime aspects of the human experience, it is every bit as vivid, rich, and striking as blue itself.
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A self-described orphan with parents, Bobby Hall began life as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, the only child of an alcoholic, mentally ill mother on welfare and an absent, crack-addicted father. After enduring 17 years of abuse and neglect, Bobby ran away from home and - with nothing more than a discarded laptop and a ninth-grade education - he found his voice in the world of hip-hop and a new home in a place he never expected: the untamed and uncharted wilderness of the social media age. In the message boards and livestreams of this brave new world, Bobby became Logic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Donna en 09-24-21
De: Bobby Hall
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Nether Station
- De: Kevin J. Anderson
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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In the darkest part of the solar system lies a wormhole. Nether. Astrophysicist Cammie Skoura has joined the first research team traveling to the Nether anomaly, eager to understand the mechanics of the wormhole and to explore its possibilities as a shortcut to Alpha Centauri. But another race of ancient beings has already been here—an impossibly long time ago—leaving remnants of their vast complexes and gigantic temples built for horrific beings beyond comprehension.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wormhole at the edge of the solar system
- De Michael G Kurilla en 01-31-25
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Frankie
- A Novel
- De: Graham Norton
- Narrado por: Graham Norton
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take center stage—after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds it easier to forget the life that came before. Then Damian, a young Irish caretaker, arrives at her London flat, there to keep an eye on her as she recovers from a fall. A memory is sparked, and the past crackles into life as Damian listens to the story Frankie has kept stored away all these years.
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The accents were amazing.
- De Karen Santos en 02-26-25
De: Graham Norton
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A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: Imani Perry
- Duración: 2 h y 18 m
- Grabación Original
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Imani Perry’s Audible Original A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain tells the dramatic story of her ongoing struggle with lupus—an autoimmune disease that attacks multiple organ systems—and what we can all learn from those who are grappling with chronic illness. It’s a powerful and poetic story that evokes the works of Susan Sontag, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Audre Lorde.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- De Melissa Medley en 03-11-23
De: Imani Perry
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South to America
- A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: Imani Perry
- Duración: 16 h y 32 m
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We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An incredible achievement
- De Tom en 02-16-22
De: Imani Perry
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The Big Fix: A Jack Bergin Mystery
- De: John Mankiewicz, Jamie Napoli, Daniel Pyne, y otros
- Narrado por: Jon Hamm, Ana de la Reguera, Alia Shawkat, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 21 m
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Jon Hamm returns as intrepid private eye Jack Bergin in this thrilling, hard-boiled Audible Original series. Set against the backdrop of the real-life battle to bring the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles, Bergin investigates a brutal murder at the request of an old flame (Ana de la Reguera), and uncovers a deadly conspiracy to forcefully evict a Mexican-American community.
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All star cast! Twisty whodunnit with a wink of true story.
- De Christian C. en 04-26-25
De: John Mankiewicz, y otros
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Vexy Thing
- On Gender and Liberation
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: Jo Sands
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
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Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem - patriarchy - is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target of critique, re-centering it to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifacts from the Enlightenment to the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a work of genius. A Gift to Humankind.
- De Julian en 03-10-23
De: Imani Perry
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Embrace Discomfort
- Lean Into Challenge to Improve Your Life
- De: Michael Easter
- Narrado por: Michael Easter
- Duración: 4 h y 31 m
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In Embrace Discomfort, Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Each of the 10 episodes except for the final one will feature an expert in a discomfort area, including ultra-runner Courtney Dauwalter, survivalist Laura Zerra, nutritionist Dr. Trevor Kashey, and fear expert Dr. Joseph E. LeDoux
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5 out of 5 stars
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Making your life more of a challenge increases vitality
- De CherylNewMex en 04-29-25
De: Michael Easter
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May We Forever Stand
- A History of the Black National Anthem (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: Keyonni James
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately as an anthem that captured the story and the aspirations of black Americans. Since the song's creation, it has been adopted by the NAACP and performed by countless artists in times of both crisis and celebration, cementing its place in African American life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Detailed history of Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
- De beotherworldly en 07-30-24
De: Imani Perry
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Death of the Author
- A Novel
- De: Nnedi Okorafor
- Narrado por: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 12 m
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In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you’ve seen before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Her best yet?
- De Emily en 01-22-25
De: Nnedi Okorafor
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Listening to the Big Bang
- De: Brian Greene
- Narrado por: Brian Greene
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
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A Russian dissident, a Jesuit priest, and an American mule skinner are but a few of the bold visionaries who crafted the scientific story of cosmic origins. The collective insights of these and numerous creative thinkers advanced human understanding from mythology to mathematics, yielding falsifiable alternatives to ancient folklore and campfire tales. Listening to the Big Bang tells the dramatic human story—filled with colorful characters, unsung catalysts, and glorified heroes—which made the Big Bang the leading cosmological theory.
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Awesome!
- De Cristal J en 04-28-25
De: Brian Greene
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Breathe
- A Letter to My Sons
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: Imani Perry
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
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Breathe explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world. Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African-American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable. However, as a mother, feminist, writer, and intellectual, Perry offers an unfettered expression of love.
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Delightful peek into the heart & soul of a mother
- De Treesey en 10-08-19
De: Imani Perry
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The Final Wife
- De: Jenny Blackhurst
- Narrado por: Rebecca Gethings, Victoria Blunt, Emily Joyce, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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Luke Whitney is stabbed to death. His wife Anna confesses after she is found next to his lifeless body. But if she did it, why can't she confirm any of the details of the crime? As police dig into the circumstances, they learn that the victim was a liar, a cheat and a narcissist. More than one person had a reason to want him dead; his scorned ex, his neglected mistress and Anna – who knows what happens to Mrs Whitneys when Luke gets bored of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Ramie Saunders en 04-24-25
De: Jenny Blackhurst
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The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War 50 Years in Review
- De: Edward Lengel, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Edward Lengel
- Duración: 3 h y 17 m
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On April 30, 1975, the Communist capture of the city of Saigon brought an end to more than 20 years of war in Vietnam. The end of the war reunified a divided nation—and changed the course of global politics, military strategy, and international relations for decades to come. In the six lectures of The Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War 50 Years in Review, historian Edward G. Lengel takes you back to the final years of the long and complex conflict that ravaged the small Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam and bled disastrously into surrounding countries, altering the region forever.
De: Edward Lengel, y otros
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We Refuse
- A Forceful History of Black Resistance
- De: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Narrado por: Kellie Carter Jackson
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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BIPOC Must Read!!!
- De Anonymous User en 03-20-25
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Prophets of the Hood
- Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: Emil Nicholas Gallina
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 9
At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip-hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip-hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story, poor narration
- De Amazon Customer en 12-08-17
De: Imani Perry
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The Sleeping World: Singing with a Humpback Whale
- De: Mumble Media, Audible Sleep
- Narrado por: Cynthia Kimola
- Duración: 54 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 176
Humpback whales are among the most intelligent animals on Earth. Some scientists believe they might even surpass humans in self-awareness, empathy, and communication skills. In this episode, we swim with a whale as he teams up with other humpbacks to use bubbles to catch fish, rescues a sea lion, and puts his own spin on melodies sung by whales across the Pacific Ocean. This is the world in its natural state, defined by seasons, routines, and cycles. By the time this whale is ready to close one eye and go to sleep, you will be too.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome
- De Zach en 03-27-25
De: Mumble Media, y otros
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Looking for Lorraine
- The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
- De: Imani Perry
- Narrado por: LisaGay Hamilton
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 142
Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Radiant
- De Rose Brookins en 03-20-19
De: Imani Perry
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Black in Blues
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- Cidney Raquel
- 03-16-25
Beautiful
I loved this, it was recommended as a follow up to Sky Full of Elephants and yes. This is the perfect compliment. Blue takes on so much meaning
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- ChiMoDayoga
- 03-25-25
Awesome Informative & Inspirational
Thank You Dr. Perry for this awesome narration of your work of Art🙏🏽
Sending Light ✨✨✨✨
Kesha L Wiggs 🤲🏾🧘🏽♀️
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- Christina the Teacher
- 02-04-25
So many lessons in this book
Take your time with this one. Annotate and research. Each chapter is basically a different theme in our beautiful history. This book is well crafted and a good history of Blue. The way she put this together with this amazing story will amaze the reader.
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