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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.
Publication Info. New York, NY : ECCO, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
3 holds on first copy returned of 5 copies
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2168245~S1
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Description 410 pages ; 25 cm
Note 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.
Subject Perry, Imani, 1972- -- Travel -- Southern States.
Manners and customs.
Race relations.
Travel.
Southern States -- Description and travel.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Genre Travel writing.
Other Form: Online version: Perry, Imani, 1972- South to America First edition. New York : ECCO, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] 9780062977380 (DLC) 2021047477.
ISBN 9780062977403 (hardcover)
0062977407 (hardcover)
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