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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Hardcover – January 25, 2022

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“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson

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

We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole.

This is the story of a Black woman and native Alabaman returning to the region she has always called home and considering it with fresh eyes. Her journey is full of detours, deep dives, and surprising encounters with places and people. She renders Southerners from all walks of life with sensitivity and honesty, sharing her thoughts about a troubling history and the ritual humiliations and joys that characterize so much of Southern life.

Weaving together stories of immigrant communities, contemporary artists, exploitative opportunists, enslaved peoples, unsung heroes, her own ancestors, and her lived experiences, Imani Perry crafts a tapestry unlike any other. With uncommon insight and breathtaking clarity, South to America offers an assertion that if we want to build a more humane future for the United States, we must center our concern below the Mason-Dixon Line.  

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“Any attempt to classify this ambitious work, which straddles genre, kicks down the fourth wall, dances with poetry, engages with literary criticism and flits from journalism to memoir to academic writing—well, that’s a fool’s errand and only undermines this insightful, ambitious and moving project…. An essential meditation on the South, its relationship to American culture—even Americanness itself…. This work—and I use the term for both Perry’s labor and its fruit — is determined to provoke a return to the other legacy of the South, the ever-urgent struggle toward freedom.” — Tayari Jones, The New York Times Book Review

"In South to America, Perry shows readers that there is no one archetype of the American South, as she considers everything from immigrant communities to the legacy of slavery to her own ancestral roots." — Time

“Provocative, perspective-shifting…. Rendered in exquisite detail…. In this vibrant, revelatory book, Perry proves herself to be a radiant storyteller…like Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Nina Simone before her.” — Oprah Daily

“Perry is deft and disciplined, her efforts to situate the beauty, oddity, and terror that mark southern life are critical and compelling. As a travel writer, she embraces detours with an eye toward discovery…. Perry asks what it means to be tied to a ‘land of big dreams and bigger lies’ when one is committed to the pursuit of a truth that bursts the nation at its seams.” — Vulture

"This history of the American South examines its subject from both personal and sociopolitical perspectives... [Perry] draws connections between the past and contemporary experience." — New Yorker

“Breathtaking…. Extraordinary…. In the realm of Southern letters it has no real antecedent. It is that fresh, that vital, that intellectually supercharged, that incandescent.” — Garden & Gun

"[Perry] tells rich stories of place while ignoring the borders dividing disciplines and genres, weaving personal experiences with deep history, economics and cultural critique." — Los Angeles Times

“Engrossing…. [Perry] cannily frames her investigation as a travelogue, moving from Appalachia to the Upper South to the Deep South to outliers like Florida and Cuba…. The book’s pleasures are many…. Her vignettes spark off the page…. An immersive read.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune

South to America marks time like Beloved did. Similarly, we will talk not solely of books about the south, but books generally as before or after South to America. I have known and loved the South for four decades and Imani Perry has shown me that there is so much more in our region’s fleshy folds to know, explore and love. It is simply the most finely crafted and rigorously conceived book about our region, and nation, I have ever read.” — Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

“[Perry] focuses on a place and reflects on its distinctive relationship to the region’s history of slavery and racism, drawing on her own extensive knowledge of literature, music, art, and folklore, as well as her own family history.”  — NPR's Fresh Air

"Perry has a knack for the simple observation that showcases the contradictions Americans endure or ignore." — Washington Post

“In the tradition of native daughters and sons returning home and cataloging the journey, Imani Perry undertakes an exploration of and meditation on the many Souths that make up the American southland. Part pilgrimage, part elegy and clarion call, South to America is wide-ranging, associative and seamlessly woven—an ambitious sweep of history, culture, language. Perry’s intellect is capacious. Moving deftly between registers, she proves to be an insightful and compelling guide." — Natasha Trethewey, author of Memorial Drive

“Perry scrutinizes the destination, and plucks threads from its history, its culture, its personality; then she weaves them together to tell a story about the place that reflects, informs, or portends our national psyche. The result is a compelling, thought-provoking read sure to spark both consensus and debate, but ultimately it serves to illustrate just how much race impacts life in this country.” — Los Angeles Review of Books

"Perry’s seamlessly crafted work is a tour-de-force reckoning." — Literary Hub

“Powerful…. Perry lets us hear what the voices have to tell us, so we can make up our own minds about where we are and how far we’ve come.” — Christian Science Monitor

“[A] saturated, gorgeously written, and keenly revelatory travelogue...Perry's southern tour is intimate and encompassing, finely laced and steely, affecting and transformative.”
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“[Perry] melds memoir, travel narrative, and history in an intimate, penetrating journey through the South…. A graceful, finely crafted examination of America’s racial, cultural, and political identity. Perry always delivers.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.”
Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“A rich and imaginative tour of a crucial piece of America.” — Publishers Weekly

Praise for Breathe////

“Breathe is a parent’s unflinching demand, born of inherited trauma and love, for her children’s right simply to be possible.”New York Times

“In Breathe, Perry offers a lyrical meditation that connects a painful, proud history of African American struggle with a clarion call for present-day action to protect, defend, and celebrate the promise of the next generation.” — Stacey Abrams, founder and chair of Fair Fight Action, Inc.

“Breathe: A Letter to My Sons is deeply cathartic and resonant for parents attempting to raise their children with intention and integrity. Imani Perry shows deep compassion for both parents and children while incisively underlining the realities of raising Black boys in a country that will inherently betray them. It is a book filled with love and insight for difficult times.” — Tarana Burke

Praise for Looking for Lorraine////

“A masterly syntheses of research and analysis.” — New York Times Book Review

Looking for Lorraine is phenomenal. I didn’t know how hungry I was for this intimate portrait until now. It feels as though Ms. Hansberry has walked into my living room and sat down beside me. What an honor and joy to read this. The writing is whip-smart, yet lovely and clear-eyed. What gifts this book, Ms. Perry, and Lorraine Hansberry are to the world.” — Jacqueline Woodson, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and National Book Award Winner for Brown Girl Dreaming

“This is one of those books you need to read. Lorraine Hansberry was so dear, so gifted, so black, so singular in so many ways, that to miss the story of her life is to miss a huge part of ours. She left us way too soon, and yet the gift of her presence, so briefly among us, is still felt in the art she left behind. But not only in the art, but in the life. A life at last made comprehensible by this loving, attentive, thoughtful book.” — Alice Walker

About the Author

Imani Perry is the National Book Award–winning author of South to America, as well as seven other books of nonfiction. She is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Perry lives between Philadelphia and Cambridge with her two sons.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ecco; Later prt. edition (January 25, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062977407
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062977403
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.33 x 9 inches
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Imani Perry is the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She previously served as the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and a faculty associate with the Programs in Law and Public Affairs, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Jazz Studies. Perry is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and received the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. She is also the author of Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, which received the Pen Bograd-Weld Award for Biography, The Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award for outstanding work in literary scholarship, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction and the Shilts-Grahn Award for nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle. Looking for Lorraine was also named a 2018 notable book by the New York Times, and an a honor book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was a finalist for the African American Intellectual History Society Paul Murray Book Prize. Her book May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem, winner of the 2019 American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Book Award for the best book in American Studies, the Hurston Wright Award for Nonfiction, and finalist for an NAACP Image Award in Nonfiction. Her 2019 book, Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (Beacon Press, 2019) which was a finalist for the 2020 Chautauqua Prize and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Excellence in Nonfiction.

Perry is a scholar of law, literary and cultural studies, and an author of creative nonfiction. She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA from Yale College in Literature and American Studies. Her writing and scholarship primarily focuses on the history of Black thought, art, and imagination crafted in response to, and resistance against, the social, political and legal realities of domination in the West. She seeks to understand the processes of retrenchment after moments of social progress, and how freedom dreams are nevertheless sustained. Her book: Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation (Duke University Press 2018) is a work of critical theory that contends with the formation of modern patriarchy at the dawn of capitalism, the transatlantic slave trade, and the age of conquest, and traces it through to the contemporary hypermedia neoliberal age. Her book More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States (NYU Press, 2011) is an examination of contemporary practices of racial inequality that are sustained and extended through a broad matrix of cultural habits despite formal declarations of racial equality.

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Customers find the book informative and insightful. They describe it as a great read that they enjoy from start to finish. However, opinions differ on the writing style - some find it poetic and creative, while others find it demeaning and rambling. There are also mixed reviews on the pacing - some find it moving and thoughtful, while others find it boring and tedious.

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"...Imani has written the best book I have read on the South. Thank you Imani for the experience and insight you have gifted me." Read more

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"...clearly hyper-qualified and extremely knowledgeable, with some superb passages and insight that awed me with her novel perspective on key aspects of..." Read more

"highly recommend this book. I learned so much i was never learned in school!." Read more

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"...She drew me into the flow of her beautiful narrative. Somehow I experienced the same insight into my white Appalachian background...." Read more

"...A difficult read, hard to get through. Not a book I would recommend to someone legitimately interested in understanding the South today." Read more

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"...However, the book seemed to wander frequently, lacking coherence, and read more like a shared diary at times, overly personal and taking on the vibe..." Read more

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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2024
    Imani gives us spiritually experience of the South. She laces this experience with the knowledge of the academy and the spiritual experience of black life. The text seamlessly flows through Imani's visits, her personal experience, the lives of the people met in her Southern visits with incredible insight into the historic, religious/spiritual, philosophic, y, and social basis of the region's and its black people.

    I kept breaking into tears as I read her poetic narrative. She drew me into the flow of her beautiful narrative. Somehow I experienced the same insight into my white Appalachian background. Imani has written the best book I have read on the South.

    Thank you Imani for the experience and insight you have gifted me.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2023
    South to America blends Imani Perry’s personal experiences, historical events and reporting on the current cultural moment into a work of creative non-fiction about the American South. When done well, the combination of memoir/history/cultural commentary is a powerful format for exploring and explaining a place. (See Fintan O’Toole’s history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves for an excellent example of the form.)

    Perry travels from Appalachia to the Gulf of Mexico, stopping mainly in cities. She is an accomplished academic, and the best parts of the book are the historical reflections on the experiences of black people in America. This writing provides useful context about the places she visits and adds to the ongoing corrective project of seeing slavery plainly for the brutal, immoral system of economic exploitation that it actually was.

    Perry has roots in rural Alabama, and she her own story of upward mobility is thoughtful and well told. But too many of the other personal experiences are superficial encounters with friends or with colleagues at academic gatherings that don’t deepen the story line. Her insights into modern circumstances in the South are similarly glancing. I kept wishing she’d make a more visceral connection between the historical South and the current psychology of white, black and mixed race Southern citizens.

    A notable exception is the New Orleans chapter, where the separate segments of Perry’s survey catch fire. She weaves history, personal connections and the tragic present of New Orleans into a passionate take on a complex and often misunderstood part of America. This chapter demonstrates the heights to which this book can rise. In too many other places, though, it feels like Perry is just passing through. Perhaps she was trying to cover too much ground without allotting enough time for the ambitious journey she intended to take.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2025
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2024
    Brava, Dr. Perry! As a native Washington, D.C. African American Ivy, Cornell C'82, who grew up in Maryland, reading "South to America was a keenly informative and highly insightful factual account of, not only how American history cannot ignore the South of the past, but must embrace it's teachings for the future if there will ever be the possibility of overcoming the "problem of the color line.'
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2024
    Legitimate sense of outrage, but very uneven and at times superficial. As one long-time resident of Atlanta in my book club commented, she didn't begin to do justice to that complex city. Enjoyed her references to African American intellectual and artistic culture, as well as the chapter on Savannah. Some very interesting historical information, new to me, but not organized in a way that made it possible to effectively process and absorb it. Factual information felt piled on rather than thoughtfully presented. A difficult read, hard to get through. Not a book I would recommend to someone legitimately interested in understanding the South today.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2024
    Growing up in Connecticut, I really had no knowledge of the South. The most we ever learned in school was, "Civil War: North Good, South Bad." This in-depth look into the South, ESPECIALLY written by a Black woman, allows you to dig deep into the subject from the most personal perspective. I honestly could not put it down.

    I promise you will love it just as much as I do.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2023
    I was enticed to read this book after listening to a NPR podcast interview by Terry Gross. The author is engaging, and clearly hyper-qualified and extremely knowledgeable, with some superb passages and insight that awed me with her novel perspective on key aspects of our American culture. Her descriptions of history were fascinating and much of it novel and educational. However, the book seemed to wander frequently, lacking coherence, and read more like a shared diary at times, overly personal and taking on the vibe of personal grudges. Forgiveable that ? Certainly, but those traits takes away from the more important and impactful writing that the author is so capable of, and detracted from the scholarly aspects and critique of America that were much more interesting. So, four stars instead of five, looking to read more from Imani Perry.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2024
    highly recommend this book. I learned so much i was never learned in school!.

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  • Cary Ross
    5.0 out of 5 stars Superb
    Reviewed in Canada on February 23, 2022
    Exceptual literary tour of the South with a guide of outstanding observation and analytical skills.
    Truly a privilege as a "tourist" to share Imani Perry's thought provoking journey.

    Cary Ross
  • malard nancy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Le Sud profond vu autrement
    Reviewed in France on April 29, 2022
    Livré comme promis, dans la boite aux lettres, RAS.
    Tout d'abord il faut dire que ce pavé est en anglais mais c'est ma langue maternelle donc aucun problème ce qui ne sera pas le cas pour les lecteurs français.
    Je m'attendais à un livre d'histoire, comme à l'école, scolaire, en somme. Mais c'est tout autre chose: plutôt choses vues dans le Sud de nos jours, avec en toile de fond, l'horreur de l'esclavagisme et les vestiges encore bien vivants.. Nous suivons l'auteur (Noire) dans ses différents déplacements dans les états du Sud profond, nous découvrons la société, la culture, propres à chaque état, avec rappels nécessaires des ravages de l'esclavagisme. En dépit des lois, le racisme existe encore, bien vivant. Et tant que ce sera le cas, l'Amérique--que l'auteur ne porte pas dans son coeur--sera encore une nation divisée.
    C'est un récit très riche, souvent savoureux, à mon avis important pour comprendre les USA. Espérons une traduction pour bientôt.