Perry, the Hughes-Rogers professor of African-American studies at Princeton University, is the author of several immersive nonfiction books, including 2019’s Breathe: A Letter to My Sons and 2018’s multi-award-winning biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry (which is a must-read). These are questions Imani Perry asks in her new book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. How do our cultural beliefs, associations, and narratives about the South shape life in America, and how can looking hard at the past, present, and imagined future of the region dismantle harmful structures and lead to change? What ideas do you have about the American South? Chances are, no matter where you are in the United States or even the world at large, you have some.
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