This book is much more an effort to have people dwell in place, space and time, and reconsider their relationships to this place. The discipline of history is based upon argument.
On describing her book not as a history, but a true story This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. She joined All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly to talk about what it meant to write the book about her own home, and why the region is so important to comprehend the rest of the nation. Weaving historical events with personal anecdotes in her new book, Perry takes readers on a journey to the past and present of the region – from the Deep South and the Black Belt, to the Gulf Coast and the Sea Islands.
Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, and the author of other books including the award-winning, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. Its author, Imani Perry, says, "We can't deny parts of who we are, particularly when those parts are the ones that set the stage for what the nation would become." The book is South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. But love it or hate it, a new book says you must appreciate its good, bad and ugly sides to understand the country.
Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University her latest book, an instant New York Times bestseller, “South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation,” is an essential odyssey through the American South, and the way it defines American identity.It's not a neutral term for most Americans. It is also informed by her background as a legal historian and her understanding of the racial inequality embedded in American law. Perry’s work reflects the beautiful and deeply complex history of Black thought, art, and imagination. This webinar event is open to the public. on Tuesday, April 12.ĭuring this virtual event, she will give a 45-minute lecture, and Castel Sweet, director of the Center for Community Engagement will facilitate the Q&A directly following the lecture. Imani Perry will give her rescheduled Oxford Conference for the Book/Future of the South Lecture at 6 p.m.
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