Ph.D. Harvard University 2000
J.D. Harvard Law School 2000

Professor, Center for African American Studies, and Faculty Associate, Program in Law and Public Affairs
001 Stanhope Hall
iperry@princeton.edu

Twitter: imaniperry

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Professor Perry is an interdisciplinary scholar who studies race and African American culture using the tools provided by various disciplines including: law, literary and cultural studies, music, and the social sciences. She has published numerous articles in the areas of law, cultural studies, and African American studies, many of which are available for download at: imaniperry.typepad.com. She also wrote the notes and introduction to the Barnes and Nobles Classics edition of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Professor Perry teaches interdisciplinary courses that train students to use multiple methodologies to investigate African American experience and culture.

Selected Publications:

• Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (Duke University Press, 2004)
• Righteous Hope (New York University Press)
• More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States (New York University Press, 2011)

Current Courses:

• AAS 362 - Black, Yet American: An Exploration of Law, Policy and Culture