South to America : A Journey to Understand the Soul of a Nation - Imani Perry Publication Date:30/04/2026 Howe is peerless and I

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South to America : A Journey to Understand the Soul of a Nation - Imani Perry Publication Date:30/04/2026 Howe is peerless and IMany of us think we know the American South. We 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