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Sto caricando le informazioni... South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (edizione 2022)di Imani Perry (Autore)
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.   ) franoscar | Apr 6, 2024 |   ) muddyboy | Jun 29, 2023 |  )3  kidzdoc | Mar 2, 2023 | If you plan to read [South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation] by [[Imani Perry]], do so when you have time to slow down and savor this rich chronicle of our country. Perry, born in Alabama, tours the South from DC to Miami and Savannah to Houston. Her book pays homage to [[Albert Murray]] who wrote a similar book in 1971 entitled [South to A Very Old Place]. The book is filled with stories and myths--some we know and many others we don't--of communities, rituals and traditions with a focus on lives lived well under often crushing poverty and oppression with the threat of state-supported violence never far away. Perry's prose is as rich and complex as the region she explores. And she is always clear that she is part of the telling, her reactions to what she experiences sometimes as complicated as those of the region she is describing. I appreciated her honesty and wisdom. In the end, however, she concludes that just reading her book isn't enough. Action is required if we are going to finally allow all people to dream great dreams. This review does not do justice to the book. I highlighted passage after passage where Perry pulled disparate ideas together then clinched them with one short sentence. In a section on New Orleans, Perry describes the practice of plaçage, in which white men would contract with black women to keep them as mistresses. As she points out, it wasn't a mutual consenting contract but one in which young black women were forced as part of the society in which they lived. This practice forms part of the plot of [The Thread Collectors] and would make an interesting companion read to Perry. witchyrichy | Jan 25, 2023 |  ) pgabj | Jan 2, 2023 |
This is no “both sides” affair: Perry is an unabashed “movement” baby, raised by intellectual freedom-fighter parents. The conviction of this book is that race and racism are fundamental values of the South.... In other words, the South is America, and its history and influence cannot be dismissed as an embarrassing relative at the nation’s holiday dinner table.... it must be said that this work, though sometimes uneven, is an essential meditation on the South, its relationship to American culture — even Americanness itself.... underscores the refrain of this immersion in Southern (American) life and history — to what extent are we all re-enactors of the nation’s brutal history? 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. The South has been stereotyped and corralled, its vibrant complexity and profound influence due for renewed and rigorous attention. Perry...accomplishes exactly that in this saturated, gorgeously written, and keenly revelatory travelogue ... By sharing her own family history, including her parents’ activism, she emphasizes the essential role of southerners in the Black Power movement. Perry’s southern tour is intimate and encompassing, finely laced and steely, affecting and transformative. Perry, professor of African American studies at Princeton, melds memoir, travel narrative, and history in an intimate, penetrating journey through the South, from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida, West Virginia, and the Bahamas.... In progressive cities and rural towns, the author finds plenty of evidence of “the plantation South, with its Black vernacular, its insurgency, and also its brutal masculinity, its worship of Whiteness, its expulsion and its massacres, its self-defeating stinginess and unapologetic pride”—in short, the essence of America. The South, she notes, is “conservative in the sense of conservation. But what that means is not in fact easily described in political terms.” A graceful, finely crafted examination of America’s racial, cultural, and political identity. Perry always delivers. Perry (Looking for Lorraine), a professor of African American studies at Princeton, interweaves personal and regional history in this impressionistic study of the American South.... Perry’s meditations range far and wide, alluding to literary theorists, basketball stars, Supreme Court rulings, and her own ancestors with equal familiarity and insight, though the breadth often comes at the expense of depth.... Still, this is a rich and imaginative tour of a crucial piece of America Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
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HTML: WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American Southand thus of Americaby 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 Southand 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. A Recommended Read from: The New Yorker The New York Times TIME Oprah Daily USA Today Vulture Essence Esquire W Magazine Atlanta Journal-Constitution PopSugar Book Riot Chicago Review of Books Electric Literature Lit Hub .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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