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South to America
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
New York, NY : ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xix, 410 pages ; 24 cm
"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.
Contents:
Introduction -- 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 ; Paríso: the Bahamas and Havana -- Conclusion.
Subjects:
Perry, Imani, 1972- -- Travel -- Southern States.
Southern States -- Description and travel.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Perry, Imani, 1972- -- Travel -- Southern States.
Southern States -- Description and travel.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Southern States -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9780062977403
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TRAVEL Writing Per | Main (Downtown) | New - First Level, Nonfiction | In |
TRAVEL Writing Per | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
TRAVEL Writing Per | St. Andrews Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
TRAVEL Writing Per | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US Per | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes index.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2022.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2022.