South to America A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

eAudio - 2022

"An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration." —Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsAn essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South—and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand AmericaWe all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dis...positions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry...

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Published
HarperAudio
Language
English
Main Author
Imani Perry
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size477 GB
Parts19
ISBN9780063095304
Release Date1/25/2022
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size476 GB
ISBN9780063095304
Release Date1/25/2022