South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (National Book Award Winner)

An essential journey through the American South—and the way it defines American identity—from one our most extraordinary writers on race and culture at work today We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list of signifiers that define the South for them: Gone with the Wind, the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan, cotillions, plantations, football, Jim Crow, and, of course, slavery. For those who live outside the region,...