Imani Perry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Imani Perry

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1972

Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Imani Perry (born September 5, 1972, in Birmingham, Alabama, United States) is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African-American culture.
She is currently the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Perry is the author of five books and has published numerous articles on law, cultural studies, and African-American studies, including a book about Lorraine Hansberry.
She also wrote the notes and introduction to the Barnes and Nobles Classics edition of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
Her work is largely influenced by the Birmingham and Frankfurt Schools, Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, and African-American literary criticism.
Through her scholarship, Perry has made significant contributions to the academic study of race and American hip hop music; she contributed a chapter to 2014's Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic (edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai).