5/28/2023 0 Comments South to america imani perry![]() And in the process, she throws down her own gauntlet, presenting her essays as a cautionary tale for what the future may hold if we don’t pay heed: In the inestimable words of OutKast’s André 3000, as he threw down the gauntlet between East Coast and West Coast rappers at the 1995 Source Awards, “The South got something to say.” Perry, a professor of African American studies at Princeton and winner of a PEN Award for her biography of playwright Lorraine Hansberry, accepts the challenge of speaking for the region. In her provocative new essay collection, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, Imani Perry contends that the South has had a tremendous impact on the history of our nation and that it continues to exert significant influence today. While there is some truth to those assessments, they don’t come close to painting an accurate picture of the whole truth, which is much more complex, multifaceted, and contradictory. History will tell you they are racist and violent. Statistics will tell you they are politically conservative and reactionary. Popular culture will tell you Southerners are fat, poor, and uneducated. ![]() ![]() THE AMERICAN SOUTH is a place that is sometimes romanticized and oftentimes maligned, especially by those who live north of the Mason-Dixon line or west of Texas. ![]()
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