This fall, she is teaching two undergraduate courses: AAS 201/PHI 291: African American Studies and the Philosophy of Race and AAS 323/AMS 321: Diversity in Black America. Perry has taught at the University since 2009. “The consequence of truncating the South and relegating it to a backwards corner is a misapprehension of its power in American history,” she wrote. Perry describes how the South “has never been a place where there are only two ‘races,’” in reference to Indigenous and Asian communities who live alongside Black and white ones. They believe the region is out of step, off rhythm, lagging behind, stumbling,” she wrote in the book’s introduction. In “South to America,” Perry said that the region is misunderstood by many. Previous winners affiliated with the University include Joyce Carol Oates, Professor Emeritus in the Program in Creative Writing.
The National Book Award is “among the most prestigious literary awards in the world,” according to the New York Times. Working with and being in regular conversation with so many exceptional thinkers in our department has been immensely beneficial to my work as an intellectual, artist and scholar,” Perry wrote to The Daily Princetonian. “he Department of African American Studies at Princeton has been a wonderful intellectual community. Perry also paid homage to her Alabamian roots in her speech, saying “‘Bama’ now has a National Book Award.” She also thanked the University’s Department of African American Studies.
“I write for my children … and for their entire generation who deserves so much better than what we’ve offered them. I write because we children of the lash-scarred, rope-choked, bullet-ridden, desecrated are still here, standing,” Perry said in her acceptance speech after receiving the award.
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