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Black in blues : how a color tells the story of my people
Published [2025] by Ecco an imprint of Harper Collins Pulishers, New York, NY
ISBN 9780062977397
Bib Id 1474593
Edition First edition.
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nam a22 8i 4500
LCCN
2024037118
ISBN
9780062977397 (hardcover) $29.00
0062977393
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305.896 P
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Black in blues : how a color tells the story of my people
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
[2025] by Ecco an imprint of Harper Collins Pulishers, New York, NY :
Description
pages cm
Contents
Our blue interior -- Writing in color -- Blue goes down -- The land where the blues began -- True blue -- Antigua, South Carolina, Montserrat -- Saint-Domingue and Haiti -- A sign which will not be cut off -- Jaybirds sing -- Blue gums and blue-black -- Hoodoo blue -- The blue note -- Blue pots -- Lonely blue -- Blue-eyed negroes -- Blue-back speller -- Egyptian blue in America -- Blue flag, gold star -- The blues -- Eating the other -- Janie's blues -- Bentonia -- Blueprints -- Citizens -- Montgomery, Newport, Cape Verde, Accra -- Afro blue -- The boys in blue -- Overall movement -- Holy repetition -- Black saint -- Old blue eyes, new blacks -- Heaven's there for those... -- From Indigo child to Whitney's blues -- Seeing the seventh son -- God's will undone, the creek did rise.
Summary
"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"--
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