‘The blue blues have never left us’: a new book examines the color’s spanning ties to Black culture | Black US culture
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 4, 2025
What makes blue Black?
In her latest book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, the scholar and writer Imani Perry traces the spanning, interdisciplinary connection between the color blue and the Black diaspora.
The book opens with a simple anecdote: Perry’s grandmother had a blue bedroom. Not just any blue, but “bright, like the sky in August”, Perry writes. She ponders why her grandmother chose that blue. Was it simply preference, a reminder . . .
