South to America
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
New York, NY : Harper Audio, [2022]
Format: Audiobook on CD
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 13 audio discs (16 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Everyone thinks they know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list of signifiers that define the South for them: Gone with the Wind, the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan, cotillions, plantations, football, Jim Crow, and, of course, slavery. For those who live outside the region, the South is very much about the profound difference between ₁us₂ and ₁them.₂ Imani Perry shows in detail by infinitely careful detail that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and if we are American, we are all at least a little bit Southern. In looking at the American South through a historic, personal, and anecdotal lens, Perry argues that the South is the nation₂s heartland. The formation of our country, our wealth, and our politics have always pivoted around the resource-rich region. A native of Alabama but raised in the North, Perry returns to the South the place she has always called home traveling through its cities and their cultural formations, studying its historical figures and institutions and the natural settings from which they sprang. Seeing the South as familiar and anew, Perry goes on a journey that brings her in contact with Southerners from all walks of life. She renders them with sensitivity and honesty, in addition to sharing her thoughts about a troubling history and the ritual humiliations and joys that characterize so much of Southern life. This is the story of a woman going home a Black woman and a Southern home at a time when ideas of how the South should be are rising once again.
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:
9798200747702
UPC: 9780063095311
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CD HISTORY Per | Main (Downtown) | First Level, Book on CD Nonfiction | In |
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Title from container.
Compact discs.
Sound recording.
Read by Imani Perry.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2022.
Compact discs.
Sound recording.
Read by Imani Perry.
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2022.