I teach a course on race in legal history. I always teach Asian American history in that course because you cannot teach serious history of US law as an instrument of racial injustice without the history of Asian Americans...
Imani Perry
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Imani Perry
@imaniperry
She/her/hers. Writer/intellectual/mother Professor @Harvard rep. by @CindyUh @CAA Speaking @LyceumAgency
Joined March 2009
- Let me tell you as a graduate of Yale and Harvard: There were plenty of high functioning academically successful & violent binge drinkers there.
- Nail salons generously donating gloves and masks to hospitals while global corporations panic over losing profits and disregard workers. This world...
- The Court has NO enforcement power. All of my race and legal history students learn this at the beginning of the term, meaning their power is *only* effectuated through the other branches.
- Also... Aretha had 2 children by the time she was 14 years old, dropped out of high school her sophomore year and made it through alcoholism & domestic violence. Genius often (usually) doesn’t look like they say it does. It’s so much vaster and more beautiful than the image.
- My advice: Share the work you find beautiful and meaningful more often than you announce your rejection of the work you dislike.
- You can work yourself to an early grave for people who wouldn't pause to say a 10 second prayer after you're gone. Be deliberate with your energy, love and attention. Remember who and what matters. That's my birthday wisdom.
- I'm not sure how anyone watching this debate, regardless of your politics, can deny that Sanders is far more knowledgable and thoughtful than Biden is about the relationship between policy-making and daily living.
- It would never EVER occur to me to resent people for being free of the student loan debt burden I carried in my 20s and 30s. I LOVE the idea of freeing as many people as possible from it. For the common good and greater decency.
- I have been teaching US legal history for 18 years and I am extremely worried.
- This is Imani. I have control of my twitter account again. Thank you to everyone who advocated on my behalf over the past 2 days, both friends and strangers.
- This case is a reminder that throughout US history white people, who reject white supremacist thinking, have been subject to white supremacist violence.
- I remember Ruthie Gilmore saying that racism is most evident in vulnerability to premature death. This is devastatingly clear right now.
- 47 Black Owned Coffee and Tea Businesses That are Great Alternatives to Starbucks shoppeblack.us/2018/04/black-…