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Author:

Perry, Imani, 1972- author.

Title:

South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation / Imani Perry.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

ECCOAn Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xix, 410 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Perry, Imani,--1972---Travel--Southern States.
Southern States--Description and travel.
Southern States--Social life and customs--21st century.
Southern States--Race relations.
Travel writing.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Origin Stories. An Errand into Wilderness: Appalachia ; Mother Country: Virginia ; Animated Roulette: Louisville ; Mary's Land: Annapolis and the Caves ; Ironic Capital: Washington, DC -- The Solidified South. The Clearing: Upper Alabama ; Tobacco Road in the Bible Belt: North Carolina ; King of the South: Atlanta ; More than a Memorial: Birmingham ; Pearls before Swine: Princeton to Nashville ; When Beale Street Talks: Memphis ; Soul of the South: The Black Belt -- Water People. Home of the Flying Africans: The Low Country ; Pistoles and Flamboyán: Florida ; Immobile Women: Mobile ; Magnolia Graves and Easter Lilies: New Orleans ; Paraíso: The Bahamas and Havana.

Summary:

"An 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 America"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0062977407
9780062977403

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1272882853

LCCN:

2021047476

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