Description
South to America traces the long, complicated journey of Black life and thought as it moves through the United States—linking history, culture, and politics across generations. Through a wide-ranging exploration of literature, social movements, and public life, it illuminates how ideas travel, how communities build meaning, and how the nation’s promises are tested by racial power. With Imani Perry’s incisive, accessible scholarship, the book connects the “South” to the broader American story, showing how geography becomes a lens for understanding freedom, belonging, and struggle. Equal parts intellectual history and cultural analysis, it invites readers to see America not as a fixed destination, but as an ongoing argument shaped by those who have been forced to fight for their place within it.
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hardcover
Ecco
Published Oct 26, 2021
336 pages
ISBN: 9780062977403
paperback
Unknown
Published Jan 1, 2021
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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