South to america perry5/28/2023 ![]() For those who live outside the region, the South is very much about the profound difference between "us? and "them.? In South to America, 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. 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() An essential journey through the American South?and the way it defines American identity?from one our most extraordinary writers on race and culture at work today We all think we know the South. ![]()
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