Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People. By Imani Perry Ecco: 256 pages, $28.99 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees ...

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

Reading “Black in Blues” is like putting on a pair of those special Kodak 3-D viewfinders that make objects and issues leap suddenly into focus. Periwinkle laid on otherwise unmarked graves.

“Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People” by Imani Perry, Ecco, 256 pages. Once one starts to look for it, blue is everywhere.

We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black people. Although Imani Perry has long chronicled Black life with an ...

Perry’s wide-ranging study seems to take inspiration from blues music, a genre that melds Black suffering with Black pride. And as I read the book, the origin story of haint blue kept flitting ...

“Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People” by Imani Perry, Ecco, 256 pages. Once one starts to look for it, blue is everywhere.

Blues music is a soulful genre. It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and resilience of Black life in America ...

Black in Blue now enters a new era, however, in which the future of funding for projects like it seems uncertain. President Donald Trump’s administration has attacked DEI efforts and decreased ...

Q&A / We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black people. Elias Rodriques Although Imani Perry has long chronicled ...