Uncle Bobbie's X Imani Perry - Black In Blues Book Tour

Schedule

Wed Jan 29 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

First United Methodist Church of Germantown | Philadelphia, PA

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Join Uncle Bobbie's as we welcome award-winning and bestselling author, Imani Perry for the launch of her latest book, "Black in Blues".
About this Event

2025 is starting with a banger!

National Book Award winner, Imani Perry is back!

Join us as we welcome one of the most important writers of our time for the release of her latest book, Black in Blues.

Imani will be in conversation with author, activist and Uncle Bobbie's owner, Marc Lamont Hill. This is a discussion that you don't want to miss.

Q&A will follow.

All copies of Black in Blues will be signed.

See you there!

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About the book:

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.

About the author:

Imani Perry is the National Book Award-winning author of South to America, as well as eight other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Perry lives between Philadelphia and Cambridge with her two sons.

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Doors open at 6:00pm.

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All tickets are non-refundable.

Street parking available. Wheelchair accessible entrance also available through the rear parking lot.

Children older than 5-years old need a ticket for entry.

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First United Methodist Church of Germantown, 6001 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, United States

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