[Unedited] Imani Perry with Krista Tippett

Published: Sept. 11, 2014, 4 p.m.

Imani Perry is a professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University. Her scholarly books include \u201cProphets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop\u201d and \u201cMore Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States.\u201d This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode \u201cImani Perry \u2014 The Fabric of Our Identity.\u201d Find more at onbeing.org.