5/22/2023 0 Comments Imani perry south![]() ![]() Perry, however, won’t let her readers make that mistake. Yet both the South and Black America have too often been painted with a single brush. Nor, she takes great pains to explain, are Black Americans. But here Perry makes the South her primary focus, joining a growing number of Black writers-including Kiese Laymon, Jesmyn Ward, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Zandria Robinson-who have forced us to reconsider what the South means in present-day America while also reevaluating what we thought we knew about the South of the past.Īt the heart of Perry’s book is this basic truth: The American South is not a monolith. ![]() They also have something in common throughout: a centering of the Black experience and, as a result, of the Southern experience that helped shape Black experience. Her works are radical combinations of history, African American studies, Southern studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, and cultural studies. The Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Perry has built a career out of writing books that escape easy categorization as one genre or another. S outh to America crisscrosses genres in much the same way that Perry crisscrossed the South while she was working on it. ![]()
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