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South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation / Imani Perry.

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ISBN: 9780062977403
ISBN: 0062977407
Physical Description: xix, 410 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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, etc.:	"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.