Imani Perry

SOUTH TO AMERICA: A JOURNEY BELOW THE MASON DIXON TO UNDERSTAND THE SOUL OF A NATION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2022, 5:30PM MARIAN MINER COOK ATHENAEUM

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, professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, 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.

Professor Perry will deliver the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies' 2022-23 Golo Mann Lecture; her Athenaeum presentation is also supported by CMC's Presidential Initiative on Anti-Racism and the Black Experience in America.