The New Mind of the South

The New Mind of the South

In this â€œknowing and sensitive bookâ€ (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), Pulitzer Prizeâ€“finalist Tracy Thompson upends stereotypes and fallacies to reveal the true heart of the American South today.

Investigative journalist Tracy Thompson spent years traveling throughout the South and discovered a place both amazingly similar to and radically different from the land she knew as a child. African Americans who left en masse for much of the twentieth century are returning in huge numbers, drawn back by a mix of ambition, family ties, and cultural memory. Though Southerners remain more churchgoing than other Americans, the evanÂgelical Protestantism that defined Southern culture through the 1960s has been torn by bitter ideological schisms. Drawing on mountains of data, interviews, and a whole new set of historic archives, Thompson reveals the true character of a region still misunderstood by outsiders and even by its own people.
Country USA
Brand Free Press
Manufacturer Free Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 26273
ReleaseDate 2014-03-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781439158470

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