Imani Perry
Professor

iperry@camlaw.rutgers.edu

Biography

Professor Perry received her B.A. from Yale College with a double major in Literature and American Studies, and received a Ph.D. from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in American Civilization and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, she was a fellow and adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center. She has also taught at Harvard College and Suffolk University in the History and African American Studies departments. Here at Rutgers, she teaches advanced constitutional law, law and literature and critical race theory. Her scholarly work is in the areas of race, legal history and culture.

Publications

Post-Intent Race and Racism: An Inquiry in Law, Society and Culture book under contract with New York University Press, expected 2008.

forthcoming

“Reading, Writing and Rights: Ruminations on Getting the Law in Line with Educational Justice” in Quality Education as a Civil Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform America’s Public Schools
eds. Robert Moses, Theresa Perry, Ernesto Cortes and Lisa Delpit, Beacon Press, 2007

“Some of My Best Friends are Cosbys: The Practice of Racial Inequality in Post-Intent Times” National Black Law Journal, Columbia Law School 2007

“Let Me Holler at You: African American Culture, Postmodern Feminism and Revisiting Sexual Harassment Law”
Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 2007

“Capacious Manhood” in Young, Black Male and Poor: A Call for National Action ed. Elijah Anderson University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007

Book Review
The Brown Decision, Jim Crow and Southern Identity
By James C. Cobb (The University of Georgia Press, 2005)
The Law and History Review, 2007


“Black Arts and Good Law: Literary Arguments for Racial Justice in the Time of Plessy” in Law, Culture and Humanities
(peer reviewed journal)

“Being While Colored: Surveillance and Citizenship” in Harvard Blackletter Law Journal


Published

Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (book)
Duke University Press, 12/2004

Introduction and Notes
Narrative of the Life of Sojourner Truth
Barnes and Nobles Classics 8/2005

“Occupying the Universal, Embodying the Subject: African American Literary Jurisprudence” (peer reviewed)
Law and Literature Volume 17, Issue 1, 2005 (97-129)

“Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory and Some Reflections on Methods”
Lat Crit IX Symposium “Countering Kulturkampf Through Critique and Justice Pedagogy”
50 Villanova Law Review 2005 (915-923)

“Dismantling The House of Plessy:
A Private Law Study of Race in Cultural and Legal History with Contemporary Resonances” (peer reviewed)
Studies in Law Politics and Society Volume 33, 2004 (91-159)
eds. Austin Sarat and Patricia Ewick

“Holistic Integration: An Anniversary Reflection on the Goals of Brown v. Board of Education” in Legacies of Brown: Multiracial Equity in American Education eds. Dorinda J. Carter, Stella M. Flores & Richard J. Reddick Harvard School of Education Review Press, 2004 (303-313)

“Buying White Beauty”
Cardozo Journal of Gender and Law
12 Cardozo J.L. & Gender 2006 (579-607)

“Of Desi, J.LO and Color Matters: Law, Critical Race Theory, The Architecture of Race” Lat Crit VIII Symposium “City and the Citizen: Operations of Power, Strategies of Resistance”
52 Cleveland State Law Review 2004 (139-152)

Book Review Essay
“Crimes Without Punishment: White Neighbors’ Resistance to Black Entry” of Steven Grant Meyer As Long As They Don’t Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)
second author, co-authored with Leonard S. Rubinowitz
The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology,
Northwestern University Volume 92, No. 2 (335-428)

“Who(se) am I? The Identity and Image of Women in Hip Hop” in Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text Reader 2nd edition
ed. Gail Dines and Jean Humez
Sage Publications, 2003 (136-148)

“Toasts, Jam and Libation: How We Place Malcolm in the Folk Tradition” in Teaching Malcolm X ed. Theresa Perry
Routledge Press, 1996 (171-186)

“It’s My Thang and I’ll Swing it The Way That I Feel: Sexuality and Black Women Rappers” Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text Reader 1st Edition ed. Gail Dines and Jean Humez Sage Publications, 1994 (524-530)