Imani Perry

Imani Perry is a professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of two books, More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States (NYU, 2011) and Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (Duke, 2004), the editor of the Barnes and Nobles Classics Edition of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth, and the author of numerous articles on race, law and culture. Professor Perry holds a Ph.D. and a J.D. from Harvard, and a B.A. from Yale.