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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.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
©2022

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  917.504 PERRY, IMANI    Check Shelf
Edition First Ecco paperback edition.
Description xix, 410 pages ; 23 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents Introduction -- I. Origin stories. An errand into wilderness: Appalachia ; Mother country: Virginia ; Animated roulette: Louisville ; Mary's land: Annapolis and the caves ; Ironic capital: Washington, DC -- II. 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 -- III. 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 -- Conclusion.
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."
Awards National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2022
Subject Perry, Imani, 1972- -- Travel -- Southern States.
Southern States -- Description and travel.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Added Title Journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation
ISBN 9780062977373 (paperback)
0062977377 (paperback)
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